Re: [topicmaps-comment] mapping topic maps on a relation database

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

* Murray Altheim
| 
| That's exactly what my upcoming software application Ceryle does.
| My first release won't actually hook the topic map engine used to
| display a topic map in touchgraph, but it does store the topic maps
| in the database with the idea that a "node demander" will pull them
| from it as needed. This is to allow really enormous topic maps (and
| merges of same) to be processed via database rather than held in
| memory.

This sounds very interesting. What API do you intend for Ceryle to
provide? An XPath-based one, or something like the "standard" TMAPI?

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