NAME¶
TM::Graph - Topic Maps, trait for graph-like operations
SYNOPSIS¶
use TM::Materialized::AsTMa;
my $tm = new TM::Materialized::AsTMa (file => 'old_testament.atm');
$tm->sync_in;
Class::Trait->apply ( $tm => 'TM::Graph' );
# find groups of topics connected
print Dumper $tm->clusters;
# use association types to compute a hull
print "friends of Mr. Cairo: ".
Dumper [
$tm->frontier ([ $tm_>tid ('mr-cairo') ], [ [ $tm->tids ('foaf') ] ])
];
# see whether there is a link (direct
print "I always knew it"
if $tm->is_path ( [ 'gw-bush' ], # there could be more
(bless [ [ 'foaf' ] ], '*'),
'osama-bin-laden');
DESCRIPTION¶
Obviously a topic map is also a graph, the topics being the nodes, and the
associations forming the edges, albeit these connections connect not always
only two nodes, but, ok, you should know TMs by now.
This package provides some functions which focus more on the graph-like nature
of Topic Maps.
INTERFACE¶
Methods¶
This trait provides the following methods:
- clusters
- $hashref = clusters
($tm)
computes the islands of topics. It figures out which topics are
connected via associations and - in case they are - will collate them into
clusters. The result is a hash reference to a hash containing list
references of topic ids organized in a cluster.
In default mode, this function only regards topics to be in the same cluster
if topics play roles in one and the same maplet. The role topics
themselves or the type or the scope are ignored.
You can change this behaviour by passing in options like
use_scope => 1
use_roles => 1
use_type => 1
Obviously, with "use_scope => 1" you will let a lot of topics
collapse into one cluster as most maplets usually are in the unconstrained
scope.
NOTE: This is yet a somewhat expensive operation.
- frontier
- @hull =
$tm->frontier ( \@start_lids,
$path_spec )
This method computes a qualified hull, i.e. a list of all topics
which are reachable from @start_lids via a path
specified by $path_spec. The path specification is a
(recursive) data structure, describing sequences, alternatives and
repetition (the "*" operator), all encoded as lists of lists.
The topics in that path specification are interpreted as assertion types.
Example (reformatting for better reading):
# a single step: start knows ...
[ ] # outer level: sequence (there is only one)
[ 'knows' ] # inner level: alternatives (there is only one)
# two subsequent steps: start knows ... isa ...
[ ] # outer level: two entries
[ 'knows' ], [ 'isa' ] # inner level, one entry each
# repetition: start knows ... knows ... knows ... ad infinitum
bless [ ], '*' # outer level: one entry, but blessed
[ 'knows' ] # inner level
# alternatives: start knows | hates ...
[ ] # outer level: one entry
[ 'knows', 'hates' ] # inner level: alternatives
# nesting: first follow an 'eats', then any number of 'begets'
[ ]
[ 'eats' ], [ ]
bless [ ], '*'
[ 'begets' ]
NOTE: All tids have to be made map-absolute with "tids".
NOTE: Cycles are detected.
NOTE: I am not sure how this performs at rather large graphs, uhm,
maps.
- is_path
- $bool =
$tm->is_path ( \@start_lids,
$path_spec , $end_lid)
This method returns 1 if there is a path from start_lids to
end_lid via the path specification. See frontier for that
one.
- neighborhood
- @neighbors =
$tm->neighborhood (
$MAXDEPTH, \@start_lids)
This method returns a list of neighbors for the given start LIDs. In that it
follows paths with the maximal length given as first parameter. In any
case the path with length 0 is returned, which includes any of the
starting nodes.
Each neighbor is represented by a hash (reference) with the "path"
and the "end" LID. The path is a list (reference) holding
the LIDs of the association types visited along the path.
SEE ALSO¶
TM
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
Copyright 200[78] by Robert Barta, <drrho@cpan.org>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.