On May 25, 2010, at 11:32 , Toby Inkster wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2010 10:19:49 +0200 > Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: > >> it is also not 100% whether the community would accept and/or would >> be interested in having a standard RDF API. What language(s) (Java, >> Python, Javascript, etc)? What happens to the deployed applications >> of Jena vs. Sesame vs. Redland vs....? Etc, etc. > > As far as having a standard common API for RDF in general, we already > do: Jena, Sesame and Redland already all provide SPARQL. Once SPARQL > Update is more standardised, that API will become read-write. > Yes, that is certainly an argument that is used a lot against starting such standardization work. I should have mentioned it. The comparison that is usually given is PHP's access to SQL: there is no API, just using SQL textually. Ivan > The RDFa DOM API is something different though, distinguishing itself > from existing RDF APIs by taking advantage of RDFa's embeddedness in > host languages, integrating with the existing API of the host language > (i.e. the HTML/XML DOM). > > -- > Toby A Inkster > <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> > <http://tobyinkster.co.uk> > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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