[topicmapmail] A somewhat new topic maps format

[Jason Cupp]

I'm doing something similar, there always seems to be an inclication to
simplify things to make validation easier, prototypes quicker to develop,
and applications less dependent on Engines & Processors (my caps). I've
modified XTM to more resemble RDF, so in the future I could potential go
both ways with it:

<topicmap 
	xmlns="http://www.esri.com/metadata/stm/1.0/#" 
	xmlns:esri="http://www.esri.com/metadata/1.0/#"
	xml:base="http://www.esri.com/metadata/lang/1.0/#">

<topic about="http://www.esri.com/metadata/1.0/#language">
      <name><nameString>Language</nameString></name>
</topic>

<!-- uses xml:base to qualify @id and @scope into a full URI -->
<!-- http://www.esri.com/metadata/lang/1.0/#hun is an instanceOf or
<rdf:type> of <esri:language> -->
<!-- <esri:language> is a kind of <topic> (inferentially, because of <name>
) -->

<esri:language id="hun">
	<name scope="eng">
         <nameString>Hungarian</nameString>
      </name>
      <name scope="fra">
         <nameString>hongrois</nameString>
      </name>
      <name scope="a3t">
         <nameString>hun</nameString>
      </name>
      <name scope="a3b">
         <nameString>hun</nameString>
      </name>
      <name scope="a2">
         <nameString>hu</nameString>
      </name>
</esri:language>
...
</topicmap>



| -----Original Message-----
| From: Alexander Johannesen [mailto:alex@shelter.nu]
| Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:53 AM
| To: topicmapmail@infoloom.com
| Subject: [topicmapmail] A somewhat new topic maps format
| 
| 
| Hi,
| 
| No, this isn't anything fancy or official, but I've made a 
| compromising
| format of the XTM 1.0 format; Compacted and Simplified XTM 
| (CSXTM) that
| is a compact and simple version of XTM 1.0, and that is optimized for
| speed and ease of use. It was especially made for handling topic maps
| in XSLT and similar technologies. Still an early version. Suggestions
| are welcome.
| 
|    Blurb : http://shelter.nu/blog-042.html
| 
|    CSXTM : http://shelter.nu/csxtm.html
| 
| 
| Kind regards,
| 
| Alexander
| -- 
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