[topicmapmail] Embedding XTM Was: XTM Datatypes

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Anthony B. Coates
| 
| I think there is a clear issue here of having one format being
| pressured to satisfy two needs.  The original goal of XTM appears to
| have been to create a simple interchange syntax for topic maps, one
| which could include references to other documents via URIs.
| However, I am one of the many potential users who would like to be
| able to embed XTM within XML documents and link to non-XTM items
| within those documents.  So, I guess what I really want is an
| embeddable *variant* of XTM, one with guidelines telling people what
| the rules for embedded use are.

I have to say I'm with Murray here. Can't you do this with XTM
already? If not, what's the problem?
 
| Murray has made the point that it is not hard to extract a valid XTM
| document from such a mixed document.  What would be very useful is a
| formal process for this, so that there was a well understood way
| that such an extracted XTM document would refer back to the general
| XML content in its original mixed source document.

One thing that might help you is reading the paper Steve and I did for
XML 2002, which is about this. See

  <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/learn_more.html >

for the article called "the XML Papers".

(URL typed in from memory while offline, so it may be wrong.)

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