====== XTM Tutorial ======

**XML Topic Maps (XTM)** is the name of the standard XML-based interchange syntax of Topic Maps. There are two versions of the standard:  

  * **[[http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm|XTM standard version 1.0]]** was written by the Topicmaps.Org Authoring Group (2001). It is commonly used.
  * **[[http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-xtm/|XTM standard version 1.1]]** as a ISO/IEC Draft (2005) based on the new Topic Map Data Model (TMDM). The [[http://www.isotopicmaps.org/sam/sam-xtm/#xtm1.0-differences|differences]] between the two versions can be found in Annex E of the draft.
 
**Good introductions in the XTM 1.0 standard:**
  * [[http://topicmaps.it.bond.edu.au/docs/6/toc|Authoring XTM Topic Maps Tutorial]] of the Bond University
  * Sam Hunting: Chapter 6 - How to Start Topic Mapping Right Away with the XTM Specification (pp. 81-102). in: Jack Park and Sam Hunting (Hrsg.): XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web. Addison-Wesley 2002. \\ <tmv b1>bibmap.xtm</tmv>
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