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XSLT applied to RDF?

From: Perry A. Caro <caro@Adobe.COM>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:33:09 -0800
Message-ID: <38C69CE5.1C5156E2@corp.adobe.com>
To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Has anyone toyed with applying XSLT transformations to RDF to generate
alternative representations?  For example, the simplified "Just The
N-tuples" syntax proposed by Sergey, et al?

It occurred to me that one could get several useful products by applying
XSLT to RDF:

1) Canonical RDF
2) Trivial RDF (Just The N-Tuples)
3) Simplified RDF (backward compatible to RDFMS 1.0)
4) XML Schema compatible intermediate form of RDF

A complete, open and robust XSLT template for transforming RDFMS 1.0 into
"Just The N-tuples" could be the basis for an RDF front-end that we could
all use.  There's at least an order of magnitude more activity around
developing XSLT tools over RDF tools, why not leverage this activity?

Perry
Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2000 13:34:28 UTC

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