[topicmapmail] Web Services

Kal Ahmed kal@techquila.com
Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:51:25 +0000


Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>* Thomas B. Passin
>| 
>| 1 - How should you ask for some relevant part of a topic map (so as
>| to avoid getting the whole thing when it is not needed)?
>
>Two mechanisms have been discussed so far: give an identifier for the
>topic you want, or run a query.
> 
>| 2 - What is a "relevant" part of a topic map, anyway?  How do you
>| know where to stop?
>
>One proposal for that is 
><URL: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/xtm-fragments.html >
>  
>
This was also one subject of my paper on peer-to-peer topic map 
applications (http://www.techquila.com/topicmapster.html) and is 
implemeted as part of TM4J.

Cheers,

Kal