[topicmapmail] Web Services

[Miles Thompson]

Once you start going down this path one really wants to check if the
Xupdate specification slash language would be appropriate for your
needs. Really the same idea, ie POSTing fragments of XML, I guess. No ?

Also the "WebFolders / webDav' spec comes to mind. 



Miles



> -----Original Message-----
> From: topicmapmail-admin@infoloom.com
[mailto:topicmapmail-admin@infoloom.com] On Behalf
> Of Jan Algermissen
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:28 AM
> Cc: topicmapmail@infoloom.com
> Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] Web Services
> 
> Christoph Froehlich wrote:
> 
> > Panckoucke is currently used to feed presentation engines. Since
some
> > time, I wonder, if it shouldn't be possible to define the model in a
way
> > that roundtripping could be done. This would allow us to build
editors
> > based upon the panckoucke abstract model.
> >
> 
> Regarding my last mail: if a given topic map lives at
> 
> http://www.example.org/topicmaps/xmltools
> 
> 
> it makes perfect sense (from a REST POV) to POST XTM (or whatever)
> to the map to add information.
> 
> You can even create (PUT) and erase (DELETE) maps via HTTP.
> 
> One might use
> 
> DELETE http://www.example.org/topicmaps/xmltools/topics/7763 HTTP/1.0
> 
> to delete a certain topic or
> 
> POST http://www.example.org/topicmaps/xmltools/topics/7763 HTTP/1.0
> Content-type: application/xtm+xml
> Content-length: xxx
> [blank line]
> <topicMap>
>   <topic id="foo">
>      <baseName>....</baseName>
>    </topic>
> </topicMap>
> 
> to add a basename to a particular topic.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> P.S. Part of the delay in my promised work on the XTM mime type is
because
>      I wanted to play arond with these issues a little bit before
proceeding
>      with the mime type. Sorry.
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