[sc34wg3] How to process <mergeMap> and added scopes?

[M.Altheim]

Geir Ove,

If I go to the trouble to answer this, do I also have to
answer the queries of Lars Marius, Robert, and Steve
Pepper too? Does anyone in this group ever take something
one says at face value, or do I have to spend several=20
hundred hours arguing with every single one of you until=20
I'm blue in the face? I'm under the impression I'm not
going to convince you anyway. That seems clear.

You don't get it. Both Jim and I have spent time stating
our use cases. If you don't understand it, don't accept it,
whatever, fine. But I'm not going to spend the innumerable
hours responding to your interpretation of my statements,=20
which stand.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                          http://www.altheim.com/murray/
Strategic Services Development Manager
The Open University Library and Learning Resources Centre
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

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     by the scruff of the neck and dunking his head deep into the
     rapidly melting Arctic ice cap, what more did the Earth need
     to do to make someone listen to its cry for help?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sc34wg3-admin@isotopicmaps.org=20
> [mailto:sc34wg3-admin@isotopicmaps.org] On Behalf Of Geir Ove Gr=F8nmo
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:28 PM
> To: sc34wg3
> Subject: [sc34wg3] How to process <mergeMap> and added scopes?
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> The current XTM specification document does not include <mergeMap>
> anymore, but I suspect that the previous definition of <mergeMap> was
> severely underspecified. That is definitely true for the original XTM
> 1.0 document.
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> Here are a few XTM documents that one should consider the result of
> having processed:
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> 1. Does added scope apply to nested <mergeMap>s? Example: what is the
> result of processing document A? How many scoping topics does the base
> name with id=3D"bn" have?
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>   A:
>   <topicMap>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"B"/>
>       <topicRef xlink:href=3D"#theme1"/>
>     </mergeMap>
>   </topicMap>
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>   B:
>   <topicMap>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"C">
>       <topicRef xlink:href=3D"#theme2"/>
>     </mergeMap>
>   </topicMap>
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>   C:
>   <topicMap>
>     <topic>
>       <baseName id=3D"bn1"><baseNameString>My=20
> topic</baseNameString></baseName
>     </topic>
>   </topicMap>
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> 2. What happens if nested <mergeMap>s are recursive and added scopes
> are used? Example: what is the result of processing document D?
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>   D:
>   <topicMap>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"E"/>
>       <topicRef xlink:href=3D"#theme2"/>
>     </mergeMap>
>   </topicMap>
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>   E:
>   <topicMap>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"D">
>       <topicRef xlink:href=3D"#theme1"/>
>     </mergeMap>
>   </topicMap>
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> 3. What happens if multiple <mergeMap>s reference the same document
> with different added scopes? Example: what is the result of processing
> document F?
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>   F:
>   <topicMap>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"G"/>
>       <topicRef xlink:href=3D"#theme1"/>
>     </mergeMap>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"G"/>
>       <topicRef xlink:href=3D"#theme2"/>
>     </mergeMap>
>   </topicMap>
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>   G:
>   <topicMap>
>     <topic>
>       <baseName id=3D"bn2"><baseNameString>My=20
> topic</baseNameString></baseName
>     </topic>
>   </topicMap>
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> 4. What happens if a <mergeMap>s reference the current document with
> added scopes? Example: what is the result of processing document H?
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>   H:
>   <topicMap>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"H"/>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"H"/>
>       <topicRef xlink:href=3D"#theme1"/>
>     </mergeMap>
>     <mergeMap xlink:href=3D"H"/>
>       <topicRef xlink:href=3D"#theme2"/>
>     </mergeMap>
>   </topicMap>
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> --
> Geir O.
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