RE: [BioRDF] Meeting Notes Feb 27, 2006

>I'm not too optimistic about technologies such as XSLT, except perhaps
for
>trivial cases; my feeling is that most (bioinformatics) databases have
data
>models that are such that nothing but a full blown programming
language
>will do. (And a lot of manual clean up work may be required in
addition.)
>

Agreed, hence the necessity of XQuery for translating from XML into
RDF.  This approach worked quite well for us when investigating a
peer-to-peer version of the BioMediator data integration system.

Peter