[topicmapmail] graphic language for describing TopicMaps

[Kal Ahmed]

Hi Stefan,

I've used UML to do this before. It works quite well and produces fairly
understandable diagrams. However, it uses features of UML (specifically
typed associations between classes) that not all the UML tools provide
(though it is a part of UML AFAIK).

See http://www.techquila.com/tmsinia_4.html

In case you wonder, I did the diagrams using Visio.

Cheers,

Kal

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 18:23, Stefan Lischke wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm just writing a complete documentation about a content management 
> system with topicmaps i builded. Therefore i have to describe a lot of 
> topic maps and PSI sets.
> When i had done this work with plain XML, i could describe the data 
> structure with XSD. But since there is no TMCL i have to do it in a 
> visual way with digrams.
> But is there a standardised way of creating a digram which describes a 
> topicmap or a topicmap typesystem which does not only include topics, it 
> also includes association types with specified roles and cardinalities.
> 
> Should i use UML?
> How are you guys describing your topicmaps? Are you using rectangles for 
> topics and circles for associations, how do you show that something is 
> scopeable?
> 
> thanx
> stefan
> 
> 
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