Re: [Tm4j-developers] TM4J 0.7.0 Features (Long)

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

At 14:23 15/02/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>the list of new possible features looks quite impressive.
>Beside the access and storage APIs I think that the
>creation and display part of it still lacks some code.
>I really love the idea of having XSLT and SVG display
>capabilities (or even XSP sheets). But I think Gerd
>is right. Every more general display capability will
>depend upon a query language.

Eventually, I would like to build support for TMQL - whatever that turns 
out to look like when ISO are done with it. In the short term, though I 
think that Gerd's suggestion of Tolog support is an excellent one and would 
certainly help with both display and editing/creationg applications.

>What is really missing for me is some basic editing
>environment for topicmaps (yes i tried and I failed).
>It would be quite cool to have some XUL based App-/
>Webfrontend to edit maps. But I think that this is
>much of an overhead we cannot cope with, isn't it?

I think that a form-based editing environment would probably have to be 
built on some form of "topic map schema" support - we could use one of the 
proposed schema forms, or create our own or wait for ISO. I too would like 
to see a "pure" topic map editing application, but in the meantime, you 
could use TMTab (http://www.techquila.com/tmtab/index.html) - you cannot 
edit XTM sources directly with it, but you can create ontologies and then 
export them in XTM syntax.

Cheers,

Kal