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AsTMa? Language Definition
Robert Barta Bond University
rho@bond.edu.au Copyright © 2003 Robert Barta
Information organised in a Topic Map repository should be retrievable by an appropriate query language. Such a query language, AsTMa?, is proposed here for further discussion. It not only allows to define the retrieval process but also gives control over the generated content providing means to transform maps from one ontology to another.
This document has no formal status. It is a technical report of Bond University.
Introduction
Design Rationale
Notation and Syntax
Processing Model
Identifiers and Objects
Functions
Types
Content Generation
Appendix: Standard Packages (Normative)
Appendix: Path Languages (Non-Normative)
Appendix: Syntax
Appendix: Query Optimisation (Non-normative)
Appendix: References