[topicmapmail] <mergeMap> Attributes?

[Jan Algermissen]

Hi,

I am working on ways to use XTM primarily as an exchange syntax for
topic maps and I think I need additional attributes on the
<mergeMap> element. This is *not* a proposal for changing XTM, but I
would be really happy if the authors of the various TM engines
could give me a hint if the XTM parsers would tolerate such
new attributes?  Or if they even support plugin code for customizing
the handling of <mergeMap>.

The background for my question is that I would like to (sometimes) use
<mergeMap> 'as the engine of application state'[1] for the client application.
In the same way as HTML <a href>'s do that in HTML.

A few initial thoughts on this are in [2], but a lot of this needs to be
straightened out of course.

Thanks in advance.

Jan


[1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_3_3
[2] http://www.topicmapping.com/blog/more_on_xtm_as_engine_of_application_state.html

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