Profile objects

NOTE! You will want to read this to fully understand what we mean by "profile". In short, by profile we mean the abstract concept that manifests itself in language. The idea of a cat, that keeps together all possible ways to say "cat" in all possible languages.

If you look at its database definition, a profile object appears to be one of the most abstract and impotent objects we have in our catalogue. In fact it doesn't do anything, it simply provides a reference that content can use to be semantically grouped.

By itself it doesn't contain any information whatsoever, but since it inherits object it can be classified, licensed etc. It is by definition a language independent information.

So, how do multimedia_text objects get assigned to a profile, if a profile doesn't know anything about content?

The answers are in the way the system manages hierarchical data, as we shall see in the next chapter.