Re: RDF 2 Wishlist: Turtle Syntax

On 2 Nov 2009, at 13:58, Peter Ansell wrote:

> 2009/11/3 Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>:
> > ok, so this is a wishlist, so I am allowed to just add my "in an  
> ideal
> > world"-personal-my-private-little-hat-on favorites :-)
> >
> > I have the following:
> >
> <snip>
> >  - closing the XML-RDF gaps: It seems that the XML and RDF  
> languages specing
> > goes determined parallel
> >   paths in W3C with no real visible perspective for convergence.  
> Integrated
> > XML+RDF query languages,
> >   or maybe an XG for XML2RDF/RDF2XML would be cool: GRDDL is a  
> starting
> > point, but the current way to
> >   translate into RDF/XML and then use XML transformation languages  
> instead
> > of directly using SPARQL/SPARQL-Update
> >   seems like an unnecessary detour.
>
> Isn't that what the XSPARQL submission you were involved in is about?
> [1] Is there a better method for transformations that has been
> designed so far?
>

As you say, that is a submission... not more, not less.
Waiting for being taken somewhere. In the meanwhille, indeed we find it
a quite useful starting point and are working on some tweaks.

Axel


> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/2009/01/
>