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

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

At 09:06 25/09/2001 +0200, Gerd Mueller wrote:
>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 ?

+1

And we should add the same method to the Association interface too.

Cheers,

Kal