[topicmapmail] How about having a language to describe the display of topics

[Jack Park]

Hi Marius,

These are good questions and I think you will eventually see that there are 
many good ways to answer your concerns about displaying topic maps.  For 
instance, Nikita Ogievetsky ( http://www.cogx.com/ ) wrote a chapter for 
the book _XML Topic Maps_ which lays out a method that uses XSLT as a means 
of capturing Web page layout rules in stylesheets. With these stylesheets, 
you have the ability to determine what gets presented and how the 
presentation will look. The source code (XTM and XSLT) for that chapter can 
be found at http://www.cogx.com/ctw/default.html

Hope that helps.

Cheers!
Jack

At 12:01 PM 12/11/2002 -0800, Marius Oancea wrote:
>Ok, TopicMaps is good for model things, facts ....
>
>I can understand this. But how to display to the end user all this things.
>
>A layout like omnigator or other topicmaps browsers is good enough for 
>profersionals.
>
>Nobody (only I) fill the needs for a standardized way of specifiing the 
>layout of a topic ?
>
>For example:
>
>    If u want to display a topic of type paintings, you want to have 
> occurences in a specific order (first name, then widht, then height the 
> ....). Some of the occurences to not appear to the enduser in some 
> cases.  Not all paintings has to have the same layout (clients are crazy 
> don't like consistency everytime).
>
>    U don't think is a good ideea to have a formal way to specify the 
> layout of the topic and the to be able to overwrite this layout at the 
> type level (Paintins) and then at the level of instance ( if one client 
> dont like painting A to be rendered like any other paintings because .... 
> is simply crazy or whatever).
>
>    I don't think is good to keep this layout information in the TopicMaps 
> itself (against MVC to combine the model with the view). What do you think ?
>
>    One posibility is to have the posibility to apply different XSLT to 
> different topics.
>
>    Have anybody a  nice looking (webuser frendly) site made with a 
> topicmap backend ?
>
>I hope I'm not to stupid to ask all this questions
>
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