- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:56:36 +0100
- To: W3C RDB2RDF <public-rdb2rdf-wg@w3.org>
ISSUE-2: R2RML serializations http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/2 You may recall from the early days of the WG that we kept the option open to define further syntaxes besides the Turtle syntax. In particular, we considered doing an XML version. I propose that we resolve not do this, and stick with just the Turtle syntax. This affects the following points from the Charter [[ • The mapping language SHOULD have a human-readable syntax as well as XML and RDF representations of the syntax for purposes of discovery and machine generation. • The mapping language SHOULD use W3C RIF whenever a rule engine is needed in the mapping language. ]] http://www.w3.org/2009/08/rdb2rdf-charter The argument here is: - Turtle is *somewhat* human-readable, so that's addressed - XML is a SHOULD, and we decide not to do it - Turtle is RDF, so that's ok - The mapping language doesn't employ a rules language, so no need to use RIF So, [[ PROPOSAL: The WG will not produce any further R2RML syntaxes beside the Turtle version. This resolves ISSUE-2. ]] Best, Richard
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