Date:         Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:42:52 -0000
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From:         "Matthew J. Dovey" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: context set for gis
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> > And I cant find the implementation of this context set, (.xsd) for
> > miimplementation)
> 
> Context sets don't have a schema, they're just a prose 
> description of the names of the indexes (etc) and their meanings.

Although there may be a case for a machine readable format of a context
set.

We may be straying into semantic web territory, thought, as the next
logical step would be to have a machine readable way of saying bath
imports dc.title, newspaper.byline is a specialisation of (or perhaps is
equivalent to) dc.author etc.

Matthew