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What is it?
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This base package contains Perl extension interfaces for Topic Maps
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/
With it you can
- read/write XTM files
- read/write AsTMa resources
- manipulate and query topic maps via an API
See also for xtm.pl, a simple command line driven workbench.
Other packages of interest:
- XTM::slides .... creating slides from topic maps
Prerequisites
-------------
Of course, XTM::base relies heavily on other Perl packages. Most
of them (hopefully all) should be resolved automatically if you
use the cpan frontend.
One notable thing is that XTM::base depends on finding an XML SAX
parser, so it depends on XML::SAX which ships with a Perl SAX parser.
It is good, but not the fastest.
- If you are using XML::LibXML (see KNOWN_ISSUES) then obviously
the libraries have to be installed:
For Debian users this is trivially done with
apt-get install libxml2
apt-get install libxml2-dev
The others can find sources (RPMs?) at
http://www.xmlsoft.org/
- If you want to use the SAX version of Expat, install XML::SAX::Expat
(see KNOWN_ISSUES).
Installation
------------
This module should be completely installable via the cpan frontend.
To build the extensions manually, unpack this distribution somewhere, and
exercise the usual incantation:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
You will need perl version 5.6.1 or better to install these modules.
Documentation
-------------
You can learn about Topic Maps in general at
http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/ (XTM standard)
http://topicmaps.bond.edu.au/ (tutorials, other stuff)
http://easytopicmaps.com/ (tutorials, lotta links and hints)
You will find an overview in XTM::base, further documentation is embedded
in the individual modules. Most of the Perl packages come with a POD
description and there is also a docs directory in the distribution.
Support
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You can either
- mail to the author (rho@telecoma.net)
- discuss this in one of the topicmap mailing lists, or
- create an bug entry in rt.cpan.org (preferred)
Copyright 200[1-2] Robert Barta, rho@telecoma.net
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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