[sc34wg3] TMQL: Navigation "indicators"

[Robert Barta]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 02:57:18PM +0200, Lars Heuer wrote:
> Comments against TMQL draft dtd. 2008-07-15.
> 
> 4.4 Navigation
> ==============
> 
> indicators
> ----------
> 
>     "[...] If the value is a topic item, in forward direction this
>     step retrieves all subject indicators of this item. If the value
>     is an IRI, in backward direction this step produces the topic
>     which has this IRI as subject indicator. [...]"
> 
> This might be a bit micrological but a "subject *indicator*" is an
> information resource (i.e. a HTML page). Topics have subject
> identifiers.

Yes, 'identifiers' are meant. But the terminology is as bad as one can
imagine. So I tried to avoid it as much as possible.

In fact, the whole axis could/should be called 'identifiers', but this
triggered antiperistaltic effects inside me ;-)

> I doubt that "retrieving all subject indicators" means that a TMQL
> processor should download the information resources from the web... .
> ;)

Maybe it should!

\rho