Re: Mapping files?

> > Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> >
> > > if I saw the four-line xSiteable XML syntax, I could very
> > > quikly get down to business and understand
> > > what it all meant. If I saw the latter 32-line XTM, I would freak out,
> and
> > > look elsewhere for something simpler.
> >
> > This is the key, and why the ability to use roles as GIs for applications
> of
> > the original HyTM was so important to me.
> 
> I agree! Same here.
> 
> > Its also why tools provide
> > specialized UIs or input languages such as LTM. We need a simple way to
> > convert from user-models expressed in XML to SAM using XSLT. That's why I
> > tried to develop a set of XML Schema based on abstract types back in the
> > last century. Until we can take sets of XML codes that conform to our
> model
> > and map them simply to the model we will not have succeeded.
> 
> Martin, what do you mean by that?
> I am doing this all the time.
> One just needs to be knowledgeable about XSLT and topic map concepts (and
> DTD of course).
> May be I am missing something? Which "model" are you referring to in the
> last sentence?

Nikita, I think you have just proved Martin's  point for him. Let me
underline the word "simply." 

Multiple topic map syntaxes, even non-XML ones, even non-SGML shortref
ones, are to be embraced if they make user's lives simpler. 

I know that the L1 syntax that Jan Algermissen and I devised made my life
a lot simpler when doing batch processing (though it was miserably
unsuitable for hand-coding!)

Martin will have to say what he means by "model". I'm not sure it's
possibel to mean *anything* by model ;-)




> --Nikita.
> 
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