[topicmapmail] TMs and XSL

[Nikita Ogievetsky]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
! 
! * Robert Barta
! |
! | Question: Is there a XTM -> CXTM conversion tool in TM4J? If so,
! | then all the identity/merging stuff can be captured in CXTM and the
! | XSLT can work off that.
! 
! Actually, I think you don't necessarily need CXTM. Doing an XTM import
! followed by an XTM export should be enough, as TM4J will do all the
! merging for you and give you a consistent topic map with consistent
! references to all topics[1] etc. Using the export functionality in
! Omnigator will give the same result.
! 
! [1] Ie, you won't have to write XSLT to deal with <topicRef/>,
!     <subjectIndicatorRef/>, and <resourceRef/>, but can assume all
!     references are <topicRef/>s.

Actually you do not even need that.
For the Kodak project [*] I wrote an XSLT library that does normalization
and merging of any number of topic maps.
Scalability might be an issue, but we did not encounter it.

[*]http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xmle03/papers/02-03-02/02-03-02.html

Kind Regards,

--Nikita