- From: Joshua Shinavier <josh@fortytwo.net>
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 00:34:43 +0800
- To: Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Pierre, On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > Jeni Tenisson's recent post [1] suggesting that RDF should have a standard > path language encouraged me to experiment with some ideas that I have been > having for a while. Well, it has been a long time coming, but SPARQL 1.1 property paths seem to be the most likely candidate for a "standard" RDF path language (right?). Of course, many non-standard langs have been invented over the years (including mine [2]! Embed path-like programs in the web of Linked Data). > The main idea is to implement an XPath-like language for RDF, directly > *inside* the programming language, meaning that the path is not a string, > but build using the actual "/" and "[]" operators of the language. Neat! This appears to be a subset of the functionality offered by ActiveRDF [3] in Ruby. I'm not aware of a similar tool for Python... > [...] Best regards, Joshua [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-property-paths/ [2] http://ripple.fortytwo.net/ [3] http://www.activerdf.org/ -- Joshua Shinavier Tetherless World Constellation PhD student http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Joshua_Shinavier http://fortytwo.net +1 509 570 6990
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