Re: [xtm-wg] Dynamic Generation and Serving of Topic Maps

[Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@eng.sun.com>]

Dave Pawson wrote:
> 
> >
> >I think it's ultimately going to be *essential* that we do develop a
> >topic map query language, though.
> 
> Whats missing from XSLT/XPATH for queries, which produce
> XML results?

Yes, this was my feeling as well. If XPath and XPointer don't fill the
bill, then we're in trouble. I'd think "XTMQL" would be simply a document
showing how to perform common XTM queries using XPath and XPointer. There
shouldn't be much need for anything else. If we're talking about query
languages for databases, we're no longer talking about querying topic
maps as XML documents, which to me seems waaay out of scope for this 
activity.

There are already some good XPath and XPointer implementations with which
we should be able to test querying our XTM documents. If they come up
failing, then we should provide feedback to the W3C (and soon, since
XPointer is still 'in process'). I've sent a note off to Eve Maler to
see about the actual status of XPointer.

Murray

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