RE: Supplemental XQuery reading list

Jonathan's is the XQuery with Functional Accessor stuff? I saw the
presentation but couldn't find anything else online.

On a different but related topic, since we don't have time allocated for it
on the agenda, would anyone be interested in a BOF for a freeform discussion
on XQuery/RDF on the Thursday evening say (after a nice day of getting to
know one and other and a pleasant dinner)? Personally, I generally get more
questions answered in one hour of face-to-face than in two or three weeks of
email and/or blindly stumbling around the web.

Howard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-rdf-dawg-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-rdf-dawg-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Seaborne, Andy
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 8:16 AM
> To: RDF Data Access Working Group
> Subject: RE: Supplemental XQuery reading list
>
>
>
> See also Jonathan Robie's talk at the tech plenary:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/tp-robie/
>
> He and I talked about this beforehand - the use of XQuery to extract
> information from RDF sources and create XHTML/XML looks like a good use of
> XQuery.  The approach is to provide accessors into the RDF graph (the
> abstract syntax, not the concrete RDF/XML syntax).
>
> 	Andy
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Howard Katz <>
> > Date: 16 April 2004 15:53
> >
> > > I can't speak to Andy's agenda, but one point that's been kicking
> > > around in the XQuery/RDF Query arena for a while is that XQuery can be
> > > used to express SQL queries so it must be able to express RDF
> > > queries.
> >
> > It can, if you're able to work out a mapping from the RDF data model
> > into
> > the XQuery data model, which is basically the XML Infoset + XML Schema
> > support + support for multiple documents.
> >
> > I'm finding myself quite interested in the inverse problem: would it be
> > possible and useful to be able to map from the XQuery surface language
> > into
> > an underlying RDF graph-based data model, so that XQuery syntax can be
> > used
> > to interrogate an RDF data store more or less directly? In other words,
> > can
> > we swap out XQuery's underlying XML-based data model and slide in an
> > RDF-based one in its place so that we don't have to do the mapping to
> > XML?
> > I'll be talking about this after Amsterdam.
> >
> > > I've seen a couple approaches that I believe workable [1]
> > > [2], but would like to see how people solve the problem for SQL.
> >
> > I've given a few pointers in my response to Andy's email re SQL-to-XML
> > mappings for XQuery.
> >
> > > I suspect that in standardizing an RDF query language we are going
> > > beyond where existing SQL mappings to XQuery have gone in that we want
> > > *one* mapping to XQuery that operates on XQuery+whatever
> > > implementations from different vendors. Does such a "standard" mapping
> > > to SQL exist?
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by the last, Eric. Can you explain a bit
> > more?
> >
> > Howard
> >
> > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/11/13-RDF-Query-Rules/#XQueryFA
> > > [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/11/13-RDF-Query-Rules/#TreeHugger --
> > > -eric
> > >
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