[topic_maps] Re: [topicmapmail] Multiple members in XTM associations

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Jens Kanschik
|
| I indeed considered to use TM4J and using it would certainly be
| better, but at the moment I would like to write an applet which
| means I have to be careful to keep the size small. Even though the
| bandwidth increases all the time, I don't like it if the user has to
| wait until half a MB has been transfered.

That makes sense. I can see why you'd want to do this, though this
will definitely increase the amount of work necessary. Unfortunately,
an XTM interpreter is a non-trivial thing to write.
 
| I was a bit inexact, actually I will use really a graph layout and
| don't want to restrict myself to trees. Of course one has to think
| carefully about how to show constructs like n-ary associations (one
| node for the assoc.  which is linked to all members), scoping (using
| different colors/styles) etc., but I think the relationship between
| TMs and graphs is close enough to give it a try.

Worth a try it most certainly is. I'd be very interested to see your
results, so I hope you report back here when you have some.

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