tmproc 0.10 - A Topic Map implementation

Date:      22 Mar 1999 08:48:22 -2300
From:      Geir Ove Grønmo, grove@infotek.no
To:        xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject:   ANN: tmproc 0.10, a Topic Map implementation

Hello,

I'm pleased to announce the first release of tmproc, a Topic Map processor. This release is meant to be a technology preview.

Enjoy!

Geir O.

Title: tmproc
Version: 0.10

Released: March 23rd 1999
Author: Geir O. Grønmo, grove@infotek.no

Homepage: http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/tmproc/index.html.

Requirements:

Python 1.5.1 or newer [1]
An SGML/XML parser with a SAX driver
SAX for Python [2]
xmlarch 0.25, optional unless architectural processing is needed [3]

What is tmproc?

tmproc is an implementation of the new international standard ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps[4]. tmproc is written in Python, and it should work on any platform to which Python have been ported[2].

tmproc is a set of classes that represents a framework for doing topic map processing in Python.

The current release includes the following set of classes:

classes for representing topic map objects like TopicMap, Topic, TopicName, Occurrence, Locator, Association, AssociationRole, Facet and FacetValue.
a factory class for creating topic map objects.
a class for importing topic maps, TMImporter. It listens to SAX events and use a factory class and interfaces to build a Topic Map.
an export class, TMExporter, that emits SAX events in the topic map interchange format so that any SAX document handler may be used for export.
statistical and information printing classes, TMUtils and TMStats.

A command line utility is also included in the distribution.

The implementation is currently based on a draft released some time before the final ballot. Some deviations from the - soon to be released - final standard is expected.

Currently only a in-memory implementation is available. A relational database implementation have also been written, but is not available in the distribution because it is a bit crude at the moment.

Fortunately tmproc has been written in a way that makes it easy to do additional implementations.

Some of the features are:

Import, export, query and manipulation of topic maps.
Full set of extensible topic map classes with clearly defined interfaces. Association, AssociationRole, Facet, FacetValue, Locator, Occurrence, Topic, TopicMap, TopicMapFactory and TopicName.
Access to data in topic map objects using getter and setter methods.
Get types including transitive types of topics, associations and facets.
Get objects [e.g. topics, associations and facets] that are of given types or more specific types.
Get objects [e.g. associations] that exists in a scope or in any of the scopes' subscopes.
Optional architectural processing [requires xmlarch].
Introduction and reference documentation.

Suggestions and bug reports should be sent to: grove@infotek.no.

[1] http://www.python.org/

[2] http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~larsga/download/python/xml/saxlib.html

[3] http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/xmlarch/index.html

[4] Final CD Text for ISO/IEC 13250, Topic Navigation Maps, http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0008.htm
See: tmproc 0.10 - an implementation of the new international standard ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps. (22-Mar-99)

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