Re: [topicmaps-comment] RE: [sc34wg3] Re: PMTM4 and XTM Layer 1.0

[David Dodds <drdodds42@hotmail.com>]

Thomas, are you willing to share the javascript code?

David Dodds



>From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@home.com>
>To: topicmaps-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [topicmaps-comment] RE: [sc34wg3] Re: PMTM4 and XTM Layer 1.0
>Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:19:02 -0400
>
>[Lars Marius Garshol]
> >
> > This really reflects how the topic map came into being. It is
> > generated automatically from an XML document that quite simply doesn't
> > have any more information. If I could add platform information it
> > would get a little better, but I keep putting that off...
> >
> > | Anyone?
> >
> > Well, Tom, I'm sure you have some subject _you're_ interested in, that
> > you could topic map? :-)
> >
>
>I'm thinking about making a topic map for the book I'm writing, but the
>writing takes so much time!
>Otherwise I'm interested in displaying topic maps as mind maps or the other
>way around, so I keep looking for good mind maps to start from.
>
>As you know very well, hand authoring a complex map is hard, and there 
>isn't
>much in the way of tools to help so far (yes, I know, k42 and Nexist, but
>they aren't really there yet for authoring.  Kal's Protege plugin looks
>good - now that it can scope occurrences, I will revisit it).  I've 
>actually
>been writing some tools in javascript that run in a browser.  So  far, I 
>can
>add topics and topic types, names, scopes, and occurrences, and add roles
>and roleplayers to associations - everything selected by pick lists or
>type-in boxes.  Only one name to a topic so far, though (it's an interface
>issue - what to display if there are more than one).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tom P
>
>
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