[topicmapmail] <mergeMap> Attributes?

[Jan Algermissen]

Kal Ahmed wrote:

> One thing that comes to mind in reading Jan's proposal is that the topic
> map in the HTTP response body ought to be able to provide the additional
> information regarding the interaction pattern - so it could be a list of
> mergeMap elements plus topics that reify each mergeMap resource and
> provide the additional information.

Right, that is another way to go. But it would actually require to allow
the processing application to differentiate between processing information
and 'true' topic map information and to propably take the processing information
out of the constructed TM object. 

The situation in RDF is a bit different because the triples one gets from
parsing are completely unrelated and the application can simply pick
what's of interest or what it understands.

Very interesting in this context is RDFForms[1] which actually brings the
HTML hypermedia application model to RDF. Simply said, I want the same
for XTM.

> 
> Then, in TM4J at least, you could enumerate the list of mergeMap
> locators, search for the topic that reifies the resource and extract and
> display whatever pertinent information you received in the response
> topicMap.

Yes. If I find the time, I'll try to throw something together for
exploration.


Jan


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kal
> 
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