[topicmapmail] Can't wait for TMCL

[AreD.Gulbrandsen]

Hello

On okt 1, 2003, at 22:18 (Europe/Oslo), Miles Thompson wrote:
> So.. Uh lets play filling the blanks..
>
> "Tolog, for instance, is to TMQL as <????> is to TMCL"

Tolog is to TMQL as OSL is to TMCL. Both Tolog and OSL is as far as I 
know made by Lars Marius Garshol, an Ontopian which is a frequent 
poster to this list.

> Forgive my ignorance but are there commercial or non commercial TM
> engines that implement/handle this sort of contstraint/templating 
> stuff?

OSL (Ontopia Schema Language) is used in OKS and this is as far as I 
know the only implementation of a full contraint language for Topic 
maps:
http://www.ontopia.net/omnigator/docs/schema/tutorial.html

"Astma!" is another schema language, but I have not seen references to 
any implementations of it:
http://astma.it.bond.edu.au/

Both provide input to the TMCL process.

> Any ideas how long it will be before TMCL is standardized.
>
> I can't *wait* for this stuff.. cause wow, TM will be useful then.

Yes, does anybody have some kind of a roadmap for TMCL?


Best Regards,
Are D. Gulbrandsen
The XML-group,
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo