Can this package be used along with RTAB-Map?

[adbidwai]

In the ROSWiki, it is mentioned in section 5 Setting Up Your Robots, that :

And each robot should run the "slam_gmapping" node from the gmapping package.

Does this mean this package would not work for any other mapping algorithm like RTABMap? Or is it that it would work as far as there is a map being published on the /map topic in the form of an occupancy grid?

I wanted to use this package with RTABMap as my VSLAM mapping algorithm. Any help regarding it is appreciated.

TIA