- From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:43:24 +0100 (BST)
- To: Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- cc: Ingo Macherius <macherius@darmstadt.gmd.de>, Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>, Gary Zakon <gzakon@rcn.com>, www-ql <www-ql@w3.org>, christop <christop@ics.forth.gr>
I think (Jonathan?) that Xquery could query over many _canonical_ syntaxes for RDF, although for many the queries would be rather awkward. The difficulty is that there isn't a canonical syntax for RDF in XML, although several have been proposed which are similar to the one that Jonathan is using. Libby > > > >What exactly is the benefit of XML syntax if you convert your data into > >3-tuples, aka triples ? > >Is maybe XQuery's expressiveness, even over this most simple schema, worth > >the effort? What would be the drawbacks of the (rather simple) relational > >representation ?
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