Re: [tinyTiM-discuss] howto or first steps

[Lars H. <he...@se...>]

Hi Stefan,

> ok i remember, i wrote tmapix with lars some years ago, now it moved
> to google code, nice!

Well, TMAPIX is another project. I think you mean tmapi-utils. [1]

> i had a lightweight xtm parser with a small footprint to work with
> tinytim. is this still existing and working with tinytim2.0 or do i
> have to use that fat 1.6MB lib to parse xtm?

The pullparser is still alive in the tmapi-utils project. I doubt
that it will work with tinyTiM 2 since it assumes TMAPI 1.0 while
tinyTiM 2 uses the successor TMAPI 2.0.

Regarding TMAPIX: You don't have to use it, you could also use
MIO Core and MIO XTM. They should find a warm and fuzzy place on your
limited hard disc space since they use together only 200kB. ;)

TMAPIX is just a thin wrapper around the MIO libs (for reading topic
maps). If you want to serialize topic maps, you have to use TMAPIX
since MIO provides no functionality to serialize topic maps. Well,
almost, since it is possible to serialize XTM 2.1 and CTM 1.0 topic
maps if you aren't afraid to use a plain IMapHandler [2] which might
not be very comfortable. The XTM 2.1/CTM 1.0 (serializing) handlers
are mainly meant to translate an event stream (i.e. generated by
parsing an e-mail) into a topic map.

To summarize: If size matters and you need a XTM 1/2.0/2.1 parser
could use MIO XTM (which requires MIO Core). If you want to serialize
topic maps and a more comfortable API, TMAPIX should fit your needs.

[1] <http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmapi-utils/>
[2]
<http://www.slideshare.net/tmra/streaming-topic-maps-api-presentation>
<http://tmra.de/2008/talks/streaming-topic-maps-API.html>

Best regards,
Lars
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