XTM::IO - Topic Map management, abstract class for input/output
# this class will never be directly used
This is the abstract class defining how an IO package should behave and may thus be inherited by classes which implement external formats (XTM::AsTMa, XTM::XML).
Constructor The constructor should expect a hash as parameter containing at least the following fields:
Methods The methods "sync_in", "sync_out" and "last_mod" implement the methods from the abstract class XTM::IO returns the UNIX time when the resource has been modified last. "undef" is returned if the result cannot be determined. actually loads an XTM resource and returns a XTM::Memory object. is supposed to save the XTM::Memory content onto the resource. XTM Copyright 2002, Robert Barta <[email protected]>, All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html