[tmcl-wg] Topic Map Constraint Language and Schematron

[Anthony B. Coates]

** Reply to message from "Dmitry" <dmitryv@cogeco.ca> on Mon, 12 May 2003
20:17:03 -0400

> I was thinking about reusing of XPath concept in TMCL. XPath allows
> efficiently reference objects without explicitly naming them.
> In logic functors are used for the same purpose.
> 
> So let's do XPath not by XML document structure but by TAO data model...
> 
> We can call it TAOPath (or TPath) in  this case :-)

Robert Barta's AsTMa  implements just such a thing, which he calls XTMPath,
although arguably a name not containing 'XTM' would be better, since it really
is (as I understand it) querying at the SAM level rather than the XTM level.

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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