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David Wang wrote (in part): ... it seems odd that Topic maps, being newsworthy, needs and >rides on top of AF, which seems to not be newsworthy (depending on >viewpoints, but let's speculate for the moment). Any reasons? > This doesn't seem at all odd to me. It is far easier for people to understand, and thus get excited about, a specific application than a general concept. Architectural Forms is an interesting concept, but it isn't something most people can imagine using to solve real world problems right now. Topic Maps is a much more concrete notion; people understand the need and can easily imagine how they might want to use a Topic Map. Thus Topic Maps are more newsworthy than Architectural Forms; they are less abstract and easier to understand. Newsworthiness is a measure of excitement not of value, and may be inversely proportional to abstracteness. -- Tommie ====================================================================== B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@m... Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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