[sc34wg3] TMDM bug

Lars Marius Garshol sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:40:52 +0100


* Lars Marius Garshol
| 
| TMDM is actually cleverly written in such a way that [reified] can
| never contain another topic. The rule for [reified] is that for
| topic X it contains the item Y where
| 
|   exists(Z) | Z in Y.[source locators] and Z in X.[subject identifiers]
| 
| However, by the equality rule for topics, if Y were a topic it would
| have to merge with X, and so Y can never be a topic.

I was a bit quick here: the bug is that if Y and X are topics and do
merge, the rule above will of course make X == Y, and so [reified]
will contain the topic itself...

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