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This is specified as standard ISO/IEC 13250.
According to the definition by TopicMaps.Org in XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0, a topic map is either
- A collection of topics, associations, and scopes that may exist in one of two forms:
- a serialized interchange format (e.g. as a topic map document expressed in XTM syntax), or
- some application-internal form, as constrained by the XTM Processing Requirements defined in Annex F.
- The document element (
) of a topic map document expressed using XTM syntax.
See also
References
- Jack Park und Sam Hunting: XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-74960-2
