[mdx] MDX & expressing communites-of-interest

[Scott Cantor]

Ian Young wrote on 2009-05-20:
> Yes.  I don't know that you'd even need any additional configuration;
> just treating an entity's mention in such an affiliation entity as
> equivalent to its definition in a same-named EntitiesDescriptor would
> seem to pretty much cover what we want.

Semantically it's fine, but it will require coming up with a way to load the
affiliation data somehow and find about it at runtime. I can query into
affiliations now if I wrote code to do it, but I can't go backwards and find
out what affiliations an entity I look up is a member of.

-- Scott