Re: Canonical XTM WAS [xtm-wg] A challenge on "the graph"

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

* Sam Hunting
| 
| Lars, maybe you could relate canonical XTM to the requirements you
| laid out?

I see it as something that would logically follow after the processing
model in the sequence of specifications. It would specify how to
serialize instances of the data model in a way that will always be the
same for equivalent instances of the data model. Because of this it
must focus greatly on the order in which nodes are serialized.

Its purpose would be to allow for automated testing of XTM processors,
which could be used to verify that they read in and process XTM
documents correctly.

Ontopia is already using the canonical XTM format I proposed as part
of the internal test suite for its topic map engine. This enables us
to easily test that our handling of a substantial set of XTM documents
is indeed correct.

--Lars M.


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