Re: with WSDL Re: Web services returning RDF?

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, NJ Rogers, Learning and Research Technology wrote:

>> The SKOS Web Service (demo at http://thes.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/demos/get and
>> links to source etc) doesn't seem to actuallly return RDF, but it is
>> runnng over an RDF system so presumably this is a matter of tweaking the
>> source a bit.

>[There  are tools to do the conversion]
>ii) The RPC/Encoded versus Document/Literal debate was something of a
>minefield at the time we were developing the SKOS Web Service. Tool support
>then was significantly stronger for RPC/Encoded than Document/Literal. We
>have documented the fact that Industry has since swung in favour of
>Document/Literal - and advise that Document/Literal is a good direction for
>the SKOS Web Service. Possibly a SOAP response format that is RDF/XML and
>constrained both by an XML schema and an RDF schema would be an interesting
>approach for maximised interoperability?

Yep. In various bits of stuff  I have looked at using the "XML stack" (i.e.
tools that are XML-aware but not RDF aware) this has seemed like a useful
approach to get cheap interoperability.

Cheers

Chaals