- From: Jacco van Ossenbruggen <Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:16:41 +0200
- To: Jacek Kopecky <jacek.kopecky@deri.org>
- CC: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, al@jku.at, semantic-web@w3.org
Jacek Kopecky wrote: > So the idea was: use SPARQL SELECT to get the data that you need and put > them in the XML variable binding results table (which may have been the > wrong choice), then use XSLT to transform that to the target XML. > <div class="blatant self promotion"> You might want to read an article we wrote about a variant of this idea: "Smart style: combining RDF semantics with XML document transformations" http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2005.008486 A preprint is available as a CWI techreport here: http://ftp.cwi.nl/CWIreports/INS/INS-E0303.pdf This was written in 2003, all pre-Sparql of course, so the examples are based on SeRQL. </div> The bottom line is that you do not need a new language per se, because you can do the SPARQL query with a single, trivial to implement, XSLT extension (always remember that the X in XSLT stands for extensible, not for XML :-) Hope this helps, Jacco
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