Re: Version 0 of the 'RIF+XML data' document "nouvelle maniere"

In yesterday's telecon we raised the question of whether both a 
predicate (function symbol) mapping and a frame mapping are needed. The 
argument for needing both was preservation of ordering.

For mapping XML to RDF (see Gloze [1]) one solution to this is to 
overlay a sequence structure on top of the relational structure for 
those occasions when it is needed. Gloze does this by adding rdf:SEQ 
overlays.

In RIF one could have an (optional) slot rif:xmlChildren whose single 
value is a list of the constants corresponding to the child infoset 
nodes in order. That would make it easy to detect if a given rule set 
required the ordering preserved and avoids the loss of information in 
that case while staying within Core.

Dave

[1] http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006/proceedings/battle/paper.pdf

Christian De Sainte Marie wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> I just finalized , on the wiki, the new version 0 of the document on RIF 
> compatibility with XML data [1], based on the XPath/XQuery data model [2].
> 
> The spec is still very sketchy, approximative, and probably erroneous in 
> many places (in some places, it is even more like notes to myself than 
> anything like a specification), but I hope that it will give you enough 
> of an idea of the proposal, that we can start an useful discussion.
> 
> Sorry for the late posting, but I am still struggling with XDM (esp. the 
> namespaces parts :-(
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christian
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/index.php?title=RIF%2BXML_data-schema
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel
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