[tmcl-wg] Comments on 2003-02-23 draft

[Dmitry]

[Lars Marius Garshol]
>
> Here are some new requirements I believe should be worked into the
> TMCL requirements document. I realize that getting them all in before
> the London draft is prepared may not be realistic, but if they are not
> worked in I hope they can at least be put on the agenda for discussion
> in London.
>
>  - TMCL should support the introspection of TMCL schemas to generate
>    storage representations for topic map data conforming to the schema
>    that is less resource-intensive than generic storage representations
>
>  - TMCL should support the introspection of TMCL schemas to optimize
>    TMQL queries
>
>  - TMCL should support the introspection of TMCL schemas to generate,
>    or help generate, user interfaces and simplify editing of topic
>    maps
>
>  - TMCL should support the validation of topic map data being authored
>    by humans
>
>  - TMCL should support the introspection of TMCL schemas to generate,
>    or help generate, user interfaces
>
>  - TMCL should support the introspection of TMCL schemas to perform
>    data binding from topic map data to programming language APIs
>
>  - TMCL should have at least one human-friendly syntax
>
>  - TMCL should have a standardized representation in topic map form
>    using published subjects defined in the TMCL standard
>
> There will most likely be more, but this is all I can think of right
> now.
>
> I realize that most of these are rather vague goals, but I still
> believe that this is the sort of thing that should go into the
> requirements document, since goals of this sort will help us decide
> what form TMCL should take.
>

Just quick question. What do you mean by TMCL schemas? Is it kind of "set of
constraints for  topic map"? Or kind of OSL?
Is it a document or "just a model"?

Dmitry