- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:14:33 +0000
- To: www-rdf-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
>>>Dan Brickley said: > In the light of this and other implementation activities > recently announced on www-rdf-interest, I reckon the time is fast > approaching that we lock various RDF API implementors in a room and > only let them out when there's a common strawman API. I've got one consistent and documented API in Redland across several languages - C, perl, python [ and skeleton Java]. Are you proposing this kind of thing or in some neutral way such as in prose? More practically, you are asking for the DOM and SAX equivalents for RDF. I see SAX as designed from the Java world and is pretty specific to that language; other languages mostly use expat and have interfaces to that which are derived from an expat header file. At what level do you propose a common API - conceptually or user level with compile/linkable systems, which I see as very hard in some languages. > My inclination is to spawn a new mailing list, eg. www-rdf-api, > [...] I'd rather not, if there is going to be discussion, it should be here until it becomes a problem. > [...] I'm personally having a hard time > remembering the subtle differences between the different RDF APIs I > use. Documenting these (not that I'm volunteering!) would in itself be > hugely useful... So Dan, it's an education and documentation problem. .. back to writing a paper on Redland ... Dave
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