Re: draft responses for LC comment FH3/29

Peter, do not expect me to get into some XQuery examples here, I am not
an XQuery expert. And, again, do not shoot at the messenger... My only
point is that this is the line Jan represented in his answer.

Ivan

Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: draft responses for LC comment FH3/29
> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:04:43 +0100
> 
>> First of all, don't shoot at the messenger...:-) But I try to anticipate
>> the arguments.
>>
>> Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>>> From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
>>> Subject: Re: draft responses for LC comment FH3/29
>>> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:17:40 +0100
>>>
>>>> In fact, re-reading Jan's comments, I realize that his remark is a
>>>> little bit different. He understands that the motivation for having
>>>> OWL/XML is to have something that works well in an XML infrastructure
>>>> but his claim is that an RDF WG should come up with an XML encoding of
>>>> RDF that would play well with XML (and use that to encode OWL) rather
>>>> than having a separate OWL/XML syntax.
>>> I don't see how this could work right.
>>>
>> Well, we do have a canonical RDF mapping of OWL. Ie, instead of mapping
>> the result of the RDF mapping to RDF/XML, one could do this with
>> another, XML-tool friendly XML encoding. I am not sure I understand the
>> problem...
>>
>>> In the current XML serialization, it is possible to XQuery for things
>>> like QCRs.  How would that work if QCRs are broken up into triples, even
>>> if you could use XQuery to find triples of a particular flavour?
>>>
>> It of course all relies on having an RDF triples follow our mapping
>> documents.
> 
> How would this work?  (I guess a multi-way join could do it, if you can
> do joins in XQuery.  Even so it would be quite a complex and expensive
> operation, as opposed to querying in the XML serialization.)
> 
>> Ivan
> 
> peter

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