- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:04:55 -0400
- To: melnik@db.stanford.edu
- Cc: bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, simeon@research.bell-labs.com
From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: a new way of thinking about RDF and RDF Schema Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:43:59 -0700 > Peter, > > are you familiar with > > http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Syntax Yes, I had seen that. > > and > > http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/syntax.html > http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/fusion.html ? I hadn't seen these before. I have seen a proposal by Stephan Decker (sp?). > The idea of interpreting arbitrary XML documents semantically is at > least as old as RDF exists, I think. Unfortunately, quoting Brian on > this, "there ain't no free lunch". Assigning "meaning" to random XML > will often produce conterintuitive interpretations, unless the author of > the document cooperates and uses XML markup judiciously. The above links > suggest some ways of "adorning" XML documents (even as non-intrusively > as by simple DTD modifications) so that the corresponding documents have > well-defined RDF mappings. A reference implementation exists since 1999. > > Sergey Ahh. But suppose that you wanted to assign (RDF-ish) meaning to every XML document? I haven't seen any schems that can do so. peter
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