[topicmapmail] A somewhat new topic maps format

[Murray Altheim]

I've also done something similar. I've developed a version of XTM
tailored for the Comprehensive Bunny Name List called CBNLXTM,
which takes that "heck no, I won't interchange" approach in creating
a syntax that nobody else but me will use. It's easier to validate
since it has fewer elements (you can use topics instead of associations,
though they have different semantics), the documents are shorter since
all element names are only one or two characters long, and it also looks
a bit like RDF (as it's quite unreadable), since that's very popular
right now. And it doesn't rely on software at all for its success (given
that its target audience is rabbits, who rarely turn on a computer).

See:

    http://www.altheim.com/bunny/
    http://www.altheim.com/bunny/cbnlxtm1.dtd

Jason Cupp wrote:
> 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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