Re: a new way of thinking about RDF and RDF Schema

"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote:
> 
> 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

The above suggestion does assign meaning to any well-formed XML
document. As explained in "syntax.html", by default every XML tag
encountered during processing is considered to be a property name.

Sergey

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