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.

or
  • The document element () of a topic map document expressed using XTM syntax.

Table of contents
1 See also
2 References
3 External links

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

External links