The Tao Of Topic Maps / quote 18 of 27

Base names and variant names

The standard therefore provides the facility to assign multiple base names to a single topic, and to provide variants of each base name for use in specific processing contexts. In the original ISO standard variants were limited to display name and sort name. XTM offers a more general variant name mechanism.

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