Hi Norm,
I didn't mean to say that we were replicating Topic Maps directly, but that
we wanted to provide similar functionality. We also wanted to provide
similar functionality to DITA reltable, but not duplicate them. We were
shooting for the best of both worlds and trying to simplify the model so
that a relationship could be easily established by an author.
I agree that the relationship type and association type should not hold
human readable content, like titles. I also think you are spot on in
suggesting that info be added to relationship to provide a title for the
relationship!
So, our example should really be something like: