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TITLE		Project Subdivision Proposal for Revision of ISO/IEC 13250-3: 2007, Information technology -- Topic Maps -- Part 3: XML syntax [WG 3]
SOURCE		WG 3
PROJECT		JTC 1.34.13250.03
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Project Subdivision Proposal for Revision of ISO/IEC 13250-3: 2007

Project Title: Topic Maps -- XML Syntax

Project Scope:

The scope of the project is to make the syntax more suitable for use with topic map fragments in web services, and to simplify conversion to the syntax from other representations.

Rationale:

In many cases topics do not have a suitable identifier which can be used to assign an "id" attribute to the "topic" element. The current syntax requires this, but we wish to remove the restriction, so long as the topic has some other identifier.

The benefits of this are:

* no need to artificially introduce ids when doing conversions,

* no need to produce artificial ids when producing topic map fragments in web services

Further, in many cases it is awkward to have to use id references to topics. Examples of this are:

* in conversions, when the topic has no natural id, but it does have an obvious subject identifier or locator, it is much easier to refer to it by that means

* when modularizing topic maps into several files topics defined in other files can be referenced simply via their subject identifiers, instead of having to repeat the <topic> element in every file using the topic

* when producing topic map fragments topics can be referenced using their subject identifiers (or locators) without requiring explicit topic elements (and the consequent artificial identifiers) to be introduced in the fragment

Target dates:

CD 2010-03

FCD 2010-09

FDIS 2010-12

IS 2011-04