Miles Thompson wrote:
Once you start going down this path one really wants to check if the
Xupdate specification slash language would be appropriate for your
needs. Really the same idea, ie POSTing fragments of XML, I guess. No ?
Also the "WebFolders / webDav' spec comes to mind.
Miles,
Actually, no. XTM documents aren't the same as XML documents,
i.e., they only have valid meaning in the framework of a Topic
Map application, where all of the merging rules, etc. come to
play. XUpdate might make some sense to look at as a model from
which to develop a similar API for Topic Maps, but on its own
it couldn't be reliably used to modify an XTM document.
Murray
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Knowledge Media Institute
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is, never just a matter of how things in fact are in the nonhuman
world). [...] just as we should not look to ground our moral
judgments in the nonhuman authority of a god, so we should not
look to ground our empirical judgments in the nonhuman authority
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