[topicmapmail] XTM

[Mason, James David (MXM)]

A couple of years ago I wrote a paper on using Topic Maps to capture the
knowledge base for an analytical and inference engine we've developed here. 

I've changed my thinking about a number of points lately, but you might
still get some ideas from the paper as it was published in "Markup
Languages": http://www.y12.doe.gov/~mxm/open/Papers/Ferret2001ML.pdf

XTM is not so much a language (in the sense that C++ or Java is a language)
as it is simply one standardized interchange notation for a larger concept,
Topic Maps (ISO/IEC 13250:2002,
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0322_files/iso13250-2nd-ed-v2.pdf)
. You might get more out of looking at some of the models behind the
standard and the XTM notation:

*	Reference Model:
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0298R1.htm
*	Standard Application Model (based on XTM):
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0299.htm,
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0329.htm
*	Issues related to XTM syntax:
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0328.htm
*	Guide to the Topic Map standards:
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0323.htm

Jim Mason

James David Mason, Ph.D.

Y-12 National Security Complex
Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208
P.O. Box 2009
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8208

+1 865 574 6973

Chairman, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/ornlsc34oldhome.htm


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ana Maria [SMTP:anamoura@ime.eb.br]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:12 PM
> To:	topicmapmail@infoloom.com
> Subject:	[topicmapmail] XTM
> 
> I am studying XTM language but I have some questions about its
> expressivity power. I would be very thankful if someone could clarify me
> about some important aspects of XTM language:
> 
> - can we consider XTM allows expressing axioms?
> - has it any reasoning capability? Has it an inference engine?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Ana Maria Moura
> 
> 
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