- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:46:37 +0000
- To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- CC: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>, RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jan Grant wrote: > I'd have to agree. Graham's analysis pretty much sums things up. You > _could_ encode RDF-like graphs in soap, but it wouldn't be a natural > fit. > OK, imagine you're putting up a website based around the notion of software descriptions. In this example, Ruby software packages. If you go the SOAP, Web Services route, you'll maybe serialize software descriptions using SOAP Encoding rules. If you go the RDF route, you'll define RDF classes and properties, and use RDF's serialization. So you'll end up with one problem diverging into two different XML representations. Here's all my work in progress (re SOAP 1.1), including example files in SOAP and RDF formats, generated with Max Froumentin's partial SOAP2RDF XSLT: http://fireball.danbri.org/people/danbri/2002/05/raa/ (this is on my own development box; W3C CVS choked on the huge checkin and I've not figured out another way to host the files at w3c yet). e contrast: http://fireball.danbri.org/people/danbri/2002/05/raa/raa-dump/ActiveScriptRuby_se.xml http://fireball.danbri.org/people/danbri/2002/05/raa/_rdf/ActiveScriptRuby_se.xml.rdf rummage around there for the .xslt and scripts to load the transformed SOAP data into an SQL store and query it with RDF query tools... more partial writeup: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/soaptech/ (including incomplete attempt to show an SE-Triples version of N-Triples for SOAP QA). Can you expand on your 'natural fit' comment? If you were building the software description system described (people are, right now) would you use SOAP Encoding or RDF syntax? Wouldn't you expect it to be natural to have a defined mapping between these two W3C specs? Dan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9Nsa+PhXvL3Mij+QRAvLoAKC55agPqikC1o4REfrYsl5qLkl5pwCfX+08 q7G6wWhuCltmNGqeVTy6VDg= =hiTw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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