[topicmapmail] Web Services

[Miles Thompson]

Talking about Tolog/TMQL and the API,

I was wondering if there is anybody out there that knows of a
webservices layer that can be sued to communicate with a 'topic map
server' hopefully one of the fully featured ones.

The reason I ask is because there may potentially be a need to bridge
the gap between Microsoft.NET C# and a topic map server, which I imagine
doing by means of passing TMQL wrapped in a web services envelope and
receiving XML results wrapped in a webservices envelope (which would
then be either just displayed for update or presentation via XSLT or
perhaps manipulated after instantiation into C# objects - which I know
creates a need for some sort of TM representation on the C# side
anyway). 

Does any such thing exist? Also implicit in this is the concept of a
'topic map server' that acts something like a database server in that it
receives queries or updates and returns data. I would be interested to
hear if in real applications people made such a 'break' between layers
inside their application or if they found it impractical to work like
that.

For what its worth, last time I asked about the subject of C# and
TopicMaps I was pointed to 'Conclave' which looks like a neat
implementation of TM in C#. 
http://tinyurl.com/2mbcp

I'm not sure if its going to suit our needs at this point, but not sure.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Miles Thompson