W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > www-ql@w3.org > April to June 2001

RE: Where does RDF fit in with XQuery?

From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:43:24 +0100 (BST)
To: Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
cc: Ingo Macherius <macherius@darmstadt.gmd.de>, Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>, Gary Zakon <gzakon@rcn.com>, www-ql <www-ql@w3.org>, christop <christop@ics.forth.gr>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106251439110.21469-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> 

I think (Jonathan?) that Xquery could query over many _canonical_
syntaxes for RDF, although for many the queries would be rather
awkward. The difficulty is that there isn't a canonical syntax for RDF
in XML, although several have been proposed which are similar to the
one that Jonathan is using.

Libby


> >
> >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 ?
Received on Monday, 25 June 2001 09:45:12 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Saturday, 22 July 2006 00:10:17 GMT