RE: Innovation, community and queries

FWIW, my simple query "language" implementation [1][2] is encoded in RDF 
(via N3).  I'm not sure it is right for all purposes, but it served mine 
well enough.

#g

[1] http://www.ninebynine.org/RDFNotes/RDFForLittleLanguages.htm

[2] http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/N3ReportGenerator.zip


At 11:22 PM 5/31/02 +0200, Danny Ayers wrote:


> >properties(@"x:spam")
> >@"x:spam" - properties() -> *
>
>Another good reason for an RDF QL in RDF!
>
>Seriously though, I do think such a QL would be extremely useful, not only
>because it would generally help interop.  It would also mean that a whole
>range of common expressions could become easier in RDF (without having to
>drop into DAML-land), and also make things like XSLT-ish transformations a
>lot more straightforward. Not unrelated to the interop point, the ability to
>save sets of queries in a common format like RDF/XML has to be a plus - same
>parser etc etc.
>
>Cheers,
>Danny.

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Graham Klyne
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