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IMO, if you want the sweet spot between the heavier Semantic Web technologies and the weaker but ubiquitous HTML technologies, Topic Maps is the best candidate. Take a look at the Ontopia sites and their numerous white papers. There is some learning curve but I saw a demo session at XML 2004 that was killer. As for their applications in link bases, you may want to look around although there are experts on this list that can point you in the right direction. Keep in mind that databases can do a lot of this stuff without using topic maps. I can create a link base in MS Access using the hyperlink datatype which the document will see as a URI, so as pointed out elsewhere, with some cleverness, you can use the existing technology to get the same effects if you skip over the religious issues. Read the Ontopia papers. len From: Nadia.Swaby@p... [mailto:Nadia.Swaby@p...] Hrrmm... I was just looking at the article "What is topic maps?" on xml.com and thinking that maybe it would be a better way to go. There has been talk in the past few days of creating some sort of link database. The problem we are hoping to solve is "What if a document gets obsoleted, superseded, or removed. How can we make sure all the documents that link to it don't link to a dead end?" Anyone have any opinions on topic maps?
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