FWD from XML-DEV: SOAP and RDF

re: http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/2000/05/0335.html

A few of you might have come across the SOAP proposal, recently published
as a NOTE on the W3C site. Interesting message from Andrew below on using
SOAP's encoding rules as an alternate RDF syntax. I'm wondering whether
someone on www-rdf-interest might be persuaded to write the XSLT to scrape
RDF from SOAP serialisations, and to check to see whether the models are
as close as they seem. 

--dan


From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
To: xml-dev@xml.org
Cc: Frystyk <frystyk@microsoft.com>, "Dan Brickley [Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk] (E-mail)" <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>,
"Eric J. Miller (E-mail)" <emiller@oclc.org>
Subject: RE: Corba IDL --> XML Schema or DTD
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:34:58 -0700


Regarding the relation between the encoding rules in the SOAP 1.1 
specification (section 5) and the RDF data model, the two are intended to
be 
complimentary. RDF describes a data model and several encodings while 
allowing that additional encodings might be invented. SOAP section 5 is
one 
such possible encoding. 


SOAP: http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/ 
RDF: http://www.w3.org/RDF/ 

Received on Monday, 15 May 2000 11:31:12 UTC