Developers' Guide

This document contains information for administrators and developers of EPiServer page types and templates on how to access topic map information presented from within page templates and display the results of queries using ASP.NET controls.

The TMCore EPiServer Module is based on the principle of defining a structured data model that you use to relate pages to each other and to other important concepts that relate to your EPiServer site. This data model is itself defined by an ontology which is a formal way of describing types, the properties they can have and their relationships to each other. In TMCore, ontology is defined using a special set of topics and associations in the topic map itself using the NetworkedPlanet Constraint Language (NPCL).

This document starts by explaining how the NPCL schema, which defines the ontology in use by your TMCore EPiServer Module relates to the editorial controls. It then goes on to explain how to query the topic map and display this information within the output from the page template.