Re: trees

Also I think
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/RGML/ could be very useful
RGML is RDF Graph Modeling Language developed by John Punin, RPI.edu
You can define tree
as example
:Tree a rgml:Graph
:TreeEdge a rgml:Edge

Other depends on which trees you need exactly


----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Chappell" <geoff@sover.net>
To: "Danny Ayers" <danny@isacat.net>; "RDF-Interest"
<www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: trees


> Not sure if this is what you're looking for - could be overkill for a lot
of
> trees...
>
> I've used dom-like properties to pull html and xml into rdf (usually for
> further processing via rules into a richer schema). For example:
>
> <html><body><p>some text</p></body></html>
>
> becomes (in rdfql triple syntax)
>
> {[rdf:type] [node:001] [x:element]}
> {[x:tagName] [node:001] 'html'}
> {[x:firstChild] [node:001] [node:002]}
> {[rdf:type] [node:002] [x:element]}
> {[x:tagName] [node:002] 'body'}
> ...
>
> I use properties like nextSibling to keep order.  I usually define other
> properties via rules (innerText, parentNode, ancestor, etc.) but you could
> of course make them explicit. I also usually point "null" values to
> something specific like [x:nil] to avoid having to use negation in rules
(so
> if a node has no nextSibling, nextSibling has a value of [x:nil] for that
> node}.
>
> I originally used daml lists for children which made some of the rules
> easier but made for less intuitive node-walking.
>
> geoff chappell
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Danny Ayers" <danny@isacat.net>
> To: "RDF-Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> Sent: 10/23/2001 4:42 PM
> Subject: trees
>
>
> > Has anyone here done or seen work about the general task of representing
> > hierarchical structures in RDF - like DMOZ in practice?
> > I would very much appreciate references to suchlike.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Danny.
> >
> > ---
> > Danny Ayers
> > http://www.isacat.net
> >
> > Alternate email (2001) :
> > danny666@virgilio.it
> > danny_ayers@yahoo.co.uk
>
>

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