man XTM::base () - Topic Map, base distribution

NAME

XTM - Topic Map, base distribution

SYNOPSIS

  use XTM;
  $tm = new XTM; # creating an empty map


  # reading a topic map description from an XML file
  use XTM::XML;
  $tm = new XTM (tie => new XTM::XML (file => 'mymap.tm'));


  # application specific persistent medium
  $tm = new XTM (tie => new XTM::Application::MineMineMine);

DESCRIPTION

Topic Maps are a means for layering multidimensional topic spaces on top of information assets. The standard covers concepts like topics, associations, scopes and occurrences. Topic Maps are expected to have a major impact on future information systems and compete with RDF in the semantic web arena.

See http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/ for more information.

Topic maps can be loaded from an XML based resource (local or remote via an URL) as prescribed by the XTM standard. There is also a way to tie a map to any persistent medium. The latter is especially interesting when running this module along with a (web) server.

PROGRAMS

Following programs come with this distribution:

xtm.pl
A simple text interface to load & query topic maps locally.
astma2xtm.pl
An AsTMa= to XTM converter.
prettifyxtm.pl
A filter which formats any incoming XTM stream into a nested XML document.

PACKAGES

Following packages come with this distribution:

XTM
toplevel wrapper for (non-threaded) maps
XTM::Memory
in-memory representation of a map
XTM::PSI
PSI definitions
XTM::IO
Abstract class
XTM::AsTMa
AsTMa adapter, this allows you to bind maps to an external AsTMa instance
XTM::LTM
LTM adapter, this allows you to bind maps to an external LTM instance
XTM::XML
XML adapter, this allows to to bind maps to an external XTM document
XTM::XML::MemoryBuilder
SAX filter to create in-memory representation of a TM
XTM::Log
logging facility will be used by others
XTM::generic
accessor functions for all below
XTM::topic
implementation of the 'topic' class
XTM::association
implementation of the 'association' class
XTM::topicRef
generic class definition
XTM::baseName
generic class definition
XTM::scope
generic class definition
XTM::resourceRef
generic class definition
XTM::instanceOf
generic class definition
XTM::subjectIdentity
generic class definition
XTM::subjectIndicatorRef
generic class definition
XTM::variant
generic class definition
XTM::variantName
generic class definition
XTM::parameters
generic class definition
XTM::roleSpec
generic class definition
XTM::member
generic class definition
XTM::mergeMap
generic class definition
XTM::resourceData
generic class definition
XTM::baseNameString
generic class definition
XTM::occurrence
generic class definition

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Copyright 200[1-25], Robert Barta <rho@telecoma.net>, All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html