[topicmapmail] eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language

[Conal Tuohy]

> Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@ontopia.net> wrote:

> > I think the main motivation for it was that the
> > person behind it found topic maps hard to understand, and I
> think much
> > of what success it has achieved has come from its simplicity.


Alexander Johannesen wrote:

> Spot on. I had a few chats with him, and it is all about making facets
> (in his interpretation) simpler to implement in site navigation.
> For those interested, I have XFML genrated with xSiteable.


I had come across it while reading a bunch of Information Architecture
websites, and it struck me as being more towards IA, versus XTM at the KM
end of the spectrum, too.

I was wondering whether the relative simplicity of XFML would make it more
suitable (than XTM directly) for modeling the IA of a website, supporting
the HTML etc. and itself based on an underlying XTM, i.e. as a layer in a
website's software architecture (whether distributed or not).


Con