[sc34wg3] Clarifying N0323

[Anthony B. Coates]

** Reply to message from Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no> on 06 Feb
2003 18:08:48 +0100

> Part 5 will provide an XML serialization of SAM instances that has the
> property that given any two SAM topic map items that are considered
> equal by the comparison rule for topic maps, they will serialize to
> XML documents that are identical byte-by-byte. The purpose of this is
> to facilitate automated conformance testing. This document will be
> described as a SAM->XML serialization, and will be an updated version
> of this document: 
> <URL: http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/cxtm.html > (Again,
> feedback on this would be welcome.)

A similar serialisation for the RM would also be useful, e.g. to compare that
two topic map engines (or two versions of the same engine) construct the same
RM model from the same XTM input(s).

	Cheers,
		Tony.
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