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

[Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

>
>I think what SRN was talking about was finding topicmap information
>thru topicmap semantics ( like finding a topic with a particular type,


<xsl:template match="topic[types="whatever-type"]">


>characteristics, scope, and role in an association).


<xsl:template match="assoc [role="xyz" and scope="abc"]>



>  XPointer/xpath
>allow you to find node in a xml document but you need a very
>specialized engine with a specified query syntax to find such
>information. Xpath can be use as the addressing in this engine but a
>lot of work has to be done in standardizing how to extract
>information from a topicmap. A topicmap is a lot more than an XML
>document. Is a type of semantic network.

Agreed. My point was that the semantics of xpath provide
the tools for that engine. 

DaveP


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