RE: grove plans (off-topic; was: Re: [xtm-wg] Does processing a TM yield one graph, or several?)

[Sam Hunting <sam_hunting@yahoo.com>]

[daniel]
> One possible role for a TopicMap Query language would be to say "Give
> me those parts of that topic map that I am interested in" together 
> with a specification of the criteria that define my interest. This 
> would serve as a filter of the kind I think Sam wants. 

That Peter wants, actually, if a "filter" is indeed what he wants.

> Regarding <xtm> ... NewsML has the NewsML element as its root. A
> NewsML document must contain a <NewsEnvelope> and may contain one or
> more <NewsItem> elements. If <NewsItem> maps to <topicMap., then
> NewsEnvelope probably maps to <xtm>

ebXML needs to envelope as well -- they have messaging requirements
that I imagine are similar to wire service requirements in NewsML.

However, ebXML not only has an envelope, a standard message header, and
the concept of a "payload", it wraps everything together using MIME, a
reasonable position if you believe that XML messaging specifications
are not "cooked".

If we are going to be serious about using <xtm> as a wrapper for
transport (which I understood to be its *ostensible* purpose in
Swindon) than we are going to have to get serious and undertake an
analytical and developement effort of similar complexity to what the
ebXML folks have done. There's no time to think that through before
December, and in any case it's a diversion of effort when we have far
more serious issues to consider.

Let's put packaging on the agenda for Paris and chuck <xtm> until then.

Having staked out my position for Dallas...

S.


 

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