[sc34wg3] A new idea for the Topic Maps standard

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Nikita Ogievetsky
| 
| Lars suggests translating on the SAM level but I do not think that
| this is such a great idea.
| After all, SAM is a processing model for XTM, is not it?

* Anthony B. Coates
| 
| It depends on what "translating to SAM" means in practice.  If there
| are standard language bindings to SAM (e.g. the TMAPI for Java hopes
| to be just this), then any data source (XML or not) that can provide
| that API is equivalent to an XTM topic map.  This is no different to
| what happens with XML now when you consider the SAX & DOM APIs.  You
| can provide SAX & DOM APIs from a database or Word document if you
| want, you don't need to create an intermediate XML document.  To the
| consuming application it seems like the input is just another XML
| document.  I see no reason why there shouldn't be an equivalent for
| Topic Maps.

Exactly.

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