[topicmapmail] stupid question?

[Nikita Ogievetsky]

Hmmm... For some time I was not receiving emails
from this list and was actually wondering why it is so silent... :-)

I hope that it is not too late to jump into the discussion about XSLT
applicability for the XTM processing.
My problem is that I am a practitioner, not a theorist.
I loved XSLT and I just did it. And actually more than two years ago [1].
The solution scales up to 10,000 topics.
As Jack  had mentioned, samples of my work are in the XML Topic Maps book
[2].
Some more information, tutorial synopsis and source code are available
online[3].
For publicly available large scale production implementation of this
approach see Kodak's digital products and accessories web site [4],
a work reported by Terry Badger and myself at  Extreme conference this year.

The main advantages of XSLT in application to Topic Maps (as well as to many
other things) are:
1) It is powerful.
2) Given a right processor, it scales.
3) It is ubiquitous.
4) Most of XSLT processors are free.

If you already know XSLT, it might be worth exploring this technology in
application to Topic Maps.

[1] http://www.cogx.com/Extreme2000/
[2] XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web. ISBN
0-201-74960-2.
[3] http://www.cogx.com/ctw/default.html
[4] http://www.kodak.com/global/en/digital/accessories/accessories.jhtml

--Nikita.

  Nikita Ogievetsky,             Cogitech Inc.
  Topic Maps Tutorials and Consultancy
  nogievet@cogx.com   --   (917) 406-8734
  http://www.cogx.com     Cogito Ergo XML