[topicmapmail] TM for Linux desktop

[Murray Altheim]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> * Murray Altheim
> | 
> | I think Kal has something along these lines in TM4J, and Ceryle uses
> | TM4J, so I may have more tools at my disposal that I had thought.
> 
> I think probably the only thing TM4J has for this is the API.

Lars Marius,

It's too bad we don't yet have a Topic Map API, but the TM4J API
does in a pinch. I must say that amount of processing I do in
my application as a layer on TM4J is pretty substantial, but most
of that is not basic TM processing. If TM4J doesn't have a command
line interface, the amount of code in Java necessary to receive a
URL and process it as an XTM file is pretty minimal. (IOW, if you
stripped off all the Ceryle-specific code and just left the
command line part and TM4J, there'd be not much of that. While I
wrote mine from scratch, given that there's now a number of
available command line parser toolkits available, this would make
the task almost trivial: receive URL, turn into Locator, pass to
processor, serialize to output.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

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