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

[Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk>]

On 7 Nov 2000, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

> 
> * Nikita Ogievetsky
> | 
> | If Topic Maps are expressed in XML syntax (which is the case of XTM)
> | then TMQL can be "compiled" into XPath and XSLT (or XPathScript).
> | As well as it can be "compiled" into Java, Python, C++, etc.  (using
> | grove, dom, sax, etc. api)
> | 
> | Whether it will be efficient is another question.
> 
> Well, the main question is why we should do something like this at
> all.  Topic maps are *serialized* in XML syntax, which is something
> very different from expressing them in the XML data model. Topic maps
> have their own data model.
> 
> To put it another way: topic maps are only XML documents when they are
> not in use.

Oh, can I steal that please? "RDF models are only XML documents when
they are not in use" :)

--danbri


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