Re: [xml-dev] more politics

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John Cowan <>
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Jonathan Borden <>
Date
2003-07-25T03:07:17Z
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Re: [xml-dev] more politics
Jonathan Borden scripsit:

> Can one derive inferences from Topic Maps, that one could not similarly
> derive from an OWL ontology? RDF/OWL makes these sorts of sharp distinctions
> quite easy.

True, a point I made in a later posting.  But in topic maps, the separation
of resource-as-document and resource-as-subject goes right down to the
bottom:  *every* appearance of a URI is unambiguously labeled as one or
the other.  I hold this to be a Good Thing.

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