Re: [TM4J-users] reference to TopicMap from Topic

[Gerd M. <ge...@sm...>]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:40:40 +0100
"Murray Woodman" <mwo...@ho...> wrote:

> 
> Problem:
> I am working on a simple web application which requires the creation of a
> link to a topic. As far as I can see I need the base URL of the parent
> TopicMap and the id of the Topic to make the link. Getting a reference to
> the parent topic map is proving difficult given that the method making the
> link only has access to the topic itself, ie no references available to the
> parent topic map or to a topic map manager. It would be cleaner if I could
> avoid passing the parent TopicMap to the method as well as the Topic.
> 
> Question:
> Given a Topic instance is it possible to gain a reference to the parent
> TopicMap without searching for the topic in the various topicmaps listed in
> the manager?

Each topic has a member m_parent that points to the parent
topicmap. Unfortunatly there is no getParent() method. Perhaps
we should add it ?

Best Regards,
Gerd

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