[sc34wg3] Association items

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Nikita Ogievetsky
| 
| It does not have to be topic type. It might be represented as a
| stand-alone association. At least that is how I approached faceted
| classifications.  Association between a class/category and all
| objects that exhibit this property.

Now I'm lost. How can you make jan an instance of the class of all
inquisitive people, using a class-instance association, without making
a topic type for that class?
 
| I would not argue with that... but how would you represent a unary
| association in XTM? Sorry - I must have not been following latest
| developments.

This was always possible:

  <association>
    <instanceOf>
      <topicRef xlink:href="#is-inquisitive"/>
    </instanceOf>

    <member>
      <roleSpec>
        <topicRef xlink:href="#person"/>
      </roleSpec>
      <topicRef xlink:href="#jan"/>
    </member>
  </association>

Or did I misunderstand your question?

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