XTMPath, Manipulating Topic Map Data Structures

Copyright © 2002 Jan Gylta, Robert Barta

When developing Topic Map based applications it is indispensable to deal with the data structures the underlying API provides to the programmer. This article tries to demonstrate how this can be accomplished with a significant abstraction using an XPath derivate, XTMPath. We will show basic use to navigate through Topic Map related data structures but also a way how to create new data based on XTMPath expressions. All this will be done using XTM::base, a set of Perl packages for Topic Map processing.

1. Introduction
2. Searching
3. Optimizations
4. Creating
5. Summary
6. Links