- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:47:15 +0100
- To: "Lee Feigenbaum" <feigenbl@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: public-sweo-ig@w3.org
On 09/12/06, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote: > It may be a question to pass over to the semantic-web list. Meanwhile > I'll ping a couple of XML+RDF people. One the people I pinged was Uche Ogbuji, then a moment later read this report of his on XML 2006 (spotted via http://planet.xmlhack.com/ ) - [[ The Semantic Web Contingent There was noticeable representation by semantic web enthusiasts (myself, Harry Halpin, Bob Ducharm, Norm Walsh, Elias Torres, Eric Prud'hommeux, Ralph Hodgson, etc..) and their presentations had somewhat subdued tones (perhaps) so as not to incite ravenous bickering from narrow-minded enthusiasts. There was still some of that however as I was asked by someone why RDF couldn't be persisted natively as XML, queried via XQuery, and inferred over via extension functions! Um... right... There is some irony in that as I have yet to find a legitimate reason myself to even use XQuery in the first place. The common scenario is when you need to query across a collection of XML documents, but I've personally preferred to index XML documents with RDF content (extracted from a subset of the documents), match the documents via RDF, isolate a document and evaluate an XPath against it essentially bypassing the collection extension to XPath with a 'semantic' index. Ofcourse, this only makes sense where there is a viable mapping from XML to RDF, but where there is one I've preferred this approach. But to each his/her own.. ]] http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2006-12-08/xml2006-are-we-there-yet -- http://dannyayers.com
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