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

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

* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| The question is also: how are you going to do the processing from
| XTM to XTM'? It seems pretty tricky to me, unless you use a OO API
| to represent your topic map, and if you do you might as well hide
| all that ugly XML stuff behind it. At that point XTM' becomes just
| another storage mechanism, and definitely not the easiest to query.

* Murray Altheim
| 
| I've currently got LTM, XTM and several other syntaxes parsing into
| a set of Java objects, so yes I guess I have an OO API in effect.
| I'm hiding the uglies as much as possible.

That's the approach I was thinking of, and I do think it's the one
that makes the most sense.

| [merging] 
| 
| Sorry for the handwaving answer, but all of this I suppose will come
| in good time. My engine right now does certain parts of the merging
| process correctly, certain parts not correctly, certain not at all.
| There's work to be done...

Well, I think it makes sense to get the basic scaffolding right first
and do the merging later. The merging is going to build on that
anyway, so...

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