RE: Where does RDF fit in with XQuery?

> And in fact, that's almost what I'm doing with XQuery - I am currently
> using an XQuery library that translates to a syntactic representation of
> the triples in XML, then I query the triples.

What exactly is the benefit of XML syntax if you convert your data into
3-tuples, aka triples ?
Is maybe XQuery's expressiveness, even over this most simple schema, worth
the effort? What would be the drawbacks of the (rather simple) relational
representation ?

Just curious,
	Ingo Macherius

Received on Friday, 22 June 2001 13:50:17 UTC