A computer-implemented system and method for translating node-and-link knowledge
representations to an outline format is disclosed. The representation includes
one or more node objects and one or more link objects. Each link object has a "from
node identifier" that identifies the node object in a concept map connected to
a link's tail and a "to node identifier" identifying the node object in the concept
map to which the link object points. A translation program traverses all of the
node objects in a node-and-link representation as directed by the link objects
by following links out of each node depending of the link objects' "to node identifier"
such that an outline is output having node object information and link object information
hierarchically interrelated.
