- From: Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:18:16 -0400
- To: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- 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>
At 02:43 PM 6/25/2001 +0100, Libby Miller wrote: >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. Ah, but doesn't that impose a double standard? For query languages that do not directly query the syntax, you feel free to convert things to your own representation of the RDF model. Why should XQuery not do the same, using a syntactic representation that closely conforms to the logical model? The main difference is that (1) a user can look at the syntactic representation, and (2) a syntactic query language can use it. I'm working my way through the RQL and Squish examples you sent me. When I have done the work, we can discuss the results. I'm a little more optimistic than you are at this point. Jonathan
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