• From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 12:45:50 -0400

Matthew Fuchs wrote:
> The parser would then interpolate <animal> tags around each <shark> 
> or <lion> tag, allowing the application to understand a relationship 
> not obvious in the document text.  

But a containment relationship does not imply an ISA relationship in
most ontologies. I don't want to make a new subtree with lion and animal
nodes. A lion in an animal would seem to me to mean "WAS EATEN BY" :).

Rather, I want to have a node which can be interpreted as either a lion
or an animal.

 Paul Prescod

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