[topicmapmail] XTM 1.1

[Kal Ahmed]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 21:15, Steve Pepper wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> | i tried to build a thesaurus some time ago and ran into the impossibility 
> | to build it with XTM 1.0 because of the TNC. As far as i understood this 
> | problem has been resolved with XTM 1.1 but XTM 1.1 is not released yet.
> | Is it sensible to use XTM 1.1 by now as a foundation for my project or may 
> | it be subject to major changes before it get's 'official'?
> 
> Actually, one reason why the TNC will be optional in the next
> version of the standard is that *many* people found it to be
> unworkable in practice; most Topic Maps tools (including TM4J, the
> Omnigator and the Ontopia Knowledge Suite) did not enforce it.
> 

Actually by default TM4J *does* enforce the TNC. It allows you to turn
it off though.

Cheers,

Kal

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