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[tools-yak@collab] Re: XFML article

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From: "Peter Jones" <ppj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:29:08 -0000
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> says XFML psi's are about the same as XTM psi's. In either
> context what is expected from the "definition" at the other
> end of the psi?    (01)

In the following 'public subject descriptor' in ISO13250 is essentially the same
thing as 'published subject indicator' in XTM 1.0.    (02)

>From ISO13250_2e_v2 TMs .pdf:
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0322_files/iso13250-2nd-ed-v2.pdf
see
"3.15 public subject descriptor"
"3.19 subject descriptor"    (03)

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Peter    (04)

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Subject: [tools-yak@collab] Re: XFML article    (05)


> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
>
> > There's a new article on XFML (eXchangeable Faceted Metadata
> > Language):
> >
> >   http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/xfml.html
> >
> > Doing a cursory read of the article, XFML's syntax is substantially
> > different from XTM, although they've retained some of the names and
> > concepts.  It doesn't need to be from a technical standpoint, which
> > leads me to believe that they did it because they thought it would
> > make it easier for beginners to understand.
>
> What I found most interesting in that artcle was the discussion
> of the connecting elements, <connect> and <psi>. The psi
> (Published Subject Indicators) are designed as pointers to
> definitions but it seems to me that they could be bastardized to
> point to examples of the concept of the facet instance. Or is
> that just the same thing? (I think this is a trick question.)
>
> The spec
>
>   http://xfml.org/spec/1.0.html#publishedsubjectindicatorconcept
>
> says XFML psi's are about the same as XTM psi's. In either
> context what is expected from the "definition" at the other
> end of the psi?
>
>
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