RE: Toying with an idea: RDF Protocol

Hi Ken,

I see a reference to the SOAP HTTP binding - I might be missing
something but is there any reason why SOAP [1] could not be used as the
protocol for carrying RDF data around - maybe even use the SOAP encoding
[2]?

[1] http://www.w3.org/tr/soap/
[2] http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/discovery/2000/08/www9-slides/henrik/

Henrik

>RDF Protocol really isn't a protocol so much as setting down 
>some conventions for passing bits of RDF around.  Well, ok, 
>some of the bits work a lot *like* a protocol, so it's gotta 
>look like that, but here goes:
>
>  <http://bitsko.slc.ut.us/2001/03/rdf-protocol.html>
>
>I'm playing with a Python implementation of the basic message 
>read/write and using IRC as the example protocol to emulate, 
>using Dave Beckett's IRC in RDF schema.  In case anyone was 
>wondering, there are no APIs and no RPCs at this layer, it's 
>all XML instance passing, with RDF triples as the content.