[Axiom-developer] RE: navigating Axiom's library

[Bill Page]

On December 7, 2005 11:24 PM Tim Daly (root) wrote:
> 
> > The idea of being able to navigate through the Axiom database
> > (daase files) easily is a very good one. In principle this
> > could be implemented quite easily on MathAction by loading
> > the contents of the daase files into a Zope data structure and
> > then writing some methods to query and browse this online.
> 
> asq is a function in the $AXIOM/bin directory that answers
> all possible questions from the axiom databases.
> 

Yes, that is a good point. I do use 'asq' - especially with the
Windows version of Axiom. It is a simple C program that could
probably be quite easily adapted produce HTML output and to be
called as a cgi program from a web server such Apache on
axiom-developer.org.

But I think there is at least one important database query that
HyperDoc does but which I do not know how to do with the current
'asq' program. On HyperDoc I can ask for all the "children" of
a domain but with 'asq' I only get to see the "ancestors", i.e.
I can only navigate in one direction in the lattice. Or am I
missing something obvious?

Regards,
Bill Page.