[TM4J-users] Questions

[Richard W. <rw...@cs...>]

Hi guys,

Looks like a lot of work has gone into TM4J!  Keen to get into it...

Quick introduction:
My name is Richard Watson, I work for a research company in South Africa
called the CSIR.  We're playing around with TM4J for an internal prototype
project, essentially a storage bank for ideas.  Using TM's as a network for
finding related info.

I'm not sure how keen you are on questions, but here are a few:

1) ID's.  On importing a topic map using:

     FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
     InputSource src = new InputSource(in);
     parser.parse(src);

     TopicMap tm = builder.getTopicMap();

we end up with all the topic id's changed.  Is there any way to preserve
id's?

2) If a topic is an instance of a topic that is in another file, how should
we handle that?  It seems to create a dummy topic, but doesn't store the
xlink anywhere.

I'm sure I'll have a few more over the next while. :)

Thanks very much,
Richard