TMAPI 1.0 Alpha Release: Common Topic Map Application Programming Interface
Categorised under: Information architecture, XML
Robin Cover reports on the alpha release of TMAPI, a common API for accessing topic maps. To quote:
The TMAPI “Common Topic Map Application Programming Interface” specification defines a set of core interfaces which must be implemented by a compliant application as well as a set of additional interfaces which may be implemented by a compliant application or which may be built upon the core interfaces.” According to the project announcement of April 8, 2004, the goal of TMAPI is “to allow developers to learn and use just one programming API for work with any topic map processing engine
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