Registration of media type application/xtm+xml

[Paul Libbrecht]

Why not be more precise such as "any tool that can process or produce  
topics and relationships among them about any possible entity; this  
has included, in the past, ... and your list...".

I would agree you have no reason to be more precise than RDF but  
indeed, their statement is bloated.
Maybe it would be possible from this paragraph to deduce that you have  
similar ambitions to RDF?

paul


Le 19-nov.-09 à 18:59, Lars Marius Garshol a écrit :

>> [Applications which use this media type]
>>
>> This should rather describe the general categories of applications,
>> like, say, computer aided drawing programs, web browsers, and so on.
>
> Oh dear. That's not easy, since this is a generic format. A lot of  
> the tools which implement it are generic Topic Maps frameworks used  
> to build other tools. Applications based on these have been deployed  
> in everything from web portals, product configuration tools, and e- 
> learning systems to intelligence and police systems.
>
> So I could say "web portals", which is a common use, but it's kind  
> of misleading, because really the *media type* is going to be used  
> by web service interfaces of all kinds.
>
> Would something like the below work?
>
> XTM is a generic data format, and as such is used by a wide
> range of applications. So far, common applications have been
> web portals, content management, and e-learning.
>
> You can see an incomplete list of tools here, but I doubt it helps:
> http://www.garshol.priv.no/tmtools/technology.jsp?id=xtm-10
>
> RDF/XML has similar problems, and simply wrote:
>
> RDF is device-, platform-, and vendor-neutral and is supported
> by a range of Web user agents and authoring tools.
>
> which is very similar to what I wrote. Some web user agents, like  
> clients of Topic Maps-based web services do use XTM. So maybe I  
> should add that?

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