[topicmapmail] Fw: API for XTM

[Max Voskob]

Thanx Lars, it was very informative.

Another question, if you don't mind.

If I want to set up versioning of my TMs, I can see at least 3 options at
the moment. I'm sure you've already been thru this, so tell me what's the
best one, please.

1. Publish another TM with updated content as another version.
2. Publish the updated content as a new TM and merge it with the existing
one.
3. Modify the existing TM and keep track of content versioning thru special
versioning associations (sounds really cool, but I think it's quite
cumbersome).

Cheers,
Max



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Marius Garshol" <larsga@garshol.priv.no>
To: <topicmapmail@infoloom.com>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] Fw: API for XTM


>
> Hi Max,
>
> * Max Voskob
> |
> | Can anybody enlighten me in regard of API for XTM?
> | Is there any standardized API at all?
>
> There is an unofficial standard known as TMAPI, which you can find at
>   <URL: http://www.tmapi.org >
>
> There's no officially standardized API, and so far ISO has made no
> moves in that direction. Personally I am not convinced that the time
> for such an API has come.
>
> | What is the timeframe for delivering the Query Lang. for Topic Maps?
>
> That depends to a large extent on what happens at the ISO meeting in
> London in a couple of weeks. If the SAM model goes to Committee Draft
> there and the committee decides to go for one of the languages
> presented there as the basis for TMQL progress could be quite rapid.
>
> I would not expect a finished language this year, however. Some time
> next year, I suppose.
>
> | Is there any temporary Query Lang for the meantime?
>
> There are several:
>
>  - tolog, defined by Ontopia, and implemented in the OKS and TM4J,
>
>  - AsTMa?, defined by Robert Barta, (not implemented, as far as I
>    know), and
>
>  - eTMQL, defined by empolis and implemented in K42.
>
> Those are all the ones I know of. The easiest way to get to play with
> one of these is to download the Omnigator and use the 'Query' plug-in
> there. A language tutorial also comes with the Omnigator.
>
> --
> Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian         <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
> GSM: +47 98 21 55 50                  <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
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