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 At 2013-10-20 11:14 +1100, Stephen Cameron wrote: Topic Maps are something I have just discovered! They've been around since the SGML days. A useful and powerful concept. Is this because I've not been listening, or, are they something thats been tried and found wanting? A second-hand book <http://www.amazon.com/XML-Topic-Maps-Creating-Using/dp/0201749602/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382227843&sr=1-1&keywords=topic+maps>XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web is available on <http://amazon.com>amazon.com for $0.01. You cannot get cheaper, so this might be an indication of the later.Ummmm ... I gather from its designer/implementer that information maintenance for the entire US nuclear arsenal is managed using Topic Maps: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.109.5995&rep=rep1&type=pdf And I heard that the entire Norwegian public education curriculum was something else being managed using Topic Maps ... a search just now found a reference to that here: http://www.lornet.ca/portals/10/i2lor07_proceedings/monday/papers/1-1.pdf I think it is just a matter of the right technology for the right kind and scope of problem. You could write a topic map to manage a book index, but it is a bit of overkill so I'm not sure anyone would do it.Thanks for any insights you can offer. Disclaimer: I was on the committee and a member of the original XML Topic Maps effort. Note that the role XML plays in Topic Maps is just as a serialization of the conceptual Topic Map that contains all of the relationships. I hope this helps. . . . . . . . . . . Ken -- Public XSLT, XSL-FO, UBL & code list classes: Melbourne, AU May 2014 | Contact us for world-wide XML consulting and instructor-led training | Free 5-hour lecture: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/udemy.htm | Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ | G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com | Google+ profile: https://plus.google.com/116832879756988317389/about | Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal | 
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