ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34N0672

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

Information Technology --
Document Description and Processing Languages

TITLE:	Japanese comments on TMDM
SOURCE:	Mr. Motomu Naito
PROJECT:	FCD 13250-2: Information Technology - Topic Maps - Data Model
PROJECT EDITOR:	Mr. Lars Marius Garshol; Mr. Graham Moore
STATUS:	Comments
ACTION:	For information
DATE:	2005-11-15
DISTRIBUTION:	SC34 and Liaisons
REPLY TO:	Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Chairman) Y-12 National Security Complex Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 865 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896 Network: masonjd@y12.doe.gov http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/ ftp://ftp.y12.doe.gov/pub/sgml/sc34/ Mr. G. Ken Holman (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat - Standards Council of Canada) Crane Softwrights Ltd. Box 266, Kars, ON K0A-2E0 CANADA Telephone: +1 613 489-0999 Facsimile: +1 613 489-0995 Network: jtc1sc34@scc.ca http://www.jtc1sc34.org

                                                              2005.11.09
                                                          Japan comments
                                                            Motomu Naito

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<< General comments >>


<< technical comments >>

1. Clause 4.3 The fundamental types, 1st paragraph

   "The values of information item properties may be either other 
    information items, ... "
   should be
   "The values of information item properties may be either the 
    item identifiers of other information items, ... ".

   After this, in the sentence of property representation,
   "information items"
   should be
   "item identifiers of information items".
   For example, Clause 5.2, [topics] property,
   "A set of topic items."
   should be
   "A set of the item identifiers of topic items."

2. Clause 4.3 The fundamental types, Set, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence

   " ... information items or strings."
   should be
   " ... the item identifiers of information items or strings.".

3. Clause 5.3.4 Reification, 2nd paragraph, last sentence

   What is "structured from"?

4. Clause 5.4 Topic name items, [type] property

   Why the Topic name items have [type] property, instead of the 
   Topic items?

5. Clause 5.5 Variant items, [value] property

   How contents of the parameters elements and other variant element 
   is included in a string of [value] property? In other words, how 
   to handle the parameters elements and other variant elements in 
   XML topic maps?

6. Clause 6.2 Merging topic items

   Why do C's [parent], [reified] and [roles played] properties need 
   not set from A's or/and B's?


<< Editorial comments >>

1. Clause 5.3.2 Identifying subjects, NOTE

   "This part of ISO/IEC13250 does not require implementations to 
    derference ... "
   should be

   "This part of ISO/IEC13250 does not require implementations to 
    dereference ... ".

2. Clause Bibliography

   The Version of UML should be 2.0.