- From: Thompson, Bryan B. <BRYAN.B.THOMPSON@saic.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:48:37 -0400
- To: "'public-rdf-dawg@w3.org'" <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
One of the issues that became clear to me during the recent WWW meeting in NYC is that we are missing a bridge between the RDF model and XML. In particular, people who are going to be using the semantic web need a bridge from the RDF data model to application specific XML vocabularies (actually, we need one that goes the other way also, but that is, I think, a seperate question). Perhaps the most common use case is querying an RDF resource and using the results to drive an XSL Transform, which in turn might generate XHTML. This issue has been more or less discussed in the context of templates, which did not receive strong support at the first f2f as a requirement for DAWG. However I think that NOT having this is going to be a major stumbling block for adoption of the DAWG recommendation by application developers and is going to make it very difficult to get at that sense of loose coupling and content reuse that makes the web so exciting. I would like to get a sense from people of how a DAWG spec could best facilitate this. Do we need to do this ourselves? Can we expose the data model query language in such a way that it can be usefully applied by XSL Transforms? Should this be considered out of scope for the charter? Thanks, -bryan
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