[topicmapmail] Mapping files?

[Martin Bryan]

Alexander Johannesen wrote:

> if I saw the four-line xSiteable XML syntax, I could very
> quikly get down to business and understand
> what it all meant. If I saw the latter 32-line XTM, I would freak out, and
> look elsewhere for something simpler.

This is the key, and why the ability to use roles as GIs for applications of
the original HyTM was so important to me. Its also why tools provide
specialized UIs or input languages such as LTM. We need a simple way to
convert from user-models expressed in XML to SAM using XSLT. That's why I
tried to develop a set of XML Schema based on abstract types back in the
last century. Until we can take sets of XML codes that conform to our model
and map them simply to the model we will not have succeeded.

Martin Bryan