- From: Adam Souzis <adam-l@souzis.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:33:45 -0800
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
I'm pleased to announce the first release of Rx4RDF and Rhizome. Rx4RDF provides a deterministic mapping between the RDF abstract syntax to the XPath data model, allowing you to query, transform and update a RDF model with languages syntactically indentical to XPath, XSLT and XUpdate (which we call RxPath <http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/RxPath>, RxSLT <http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/RxSLT>, and RxUpdate <http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/RxUpdate>, respectively). A reference implementation (in Python) and formal specification can be found at http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/ Rhizome is built on Rx4RDF and is a Wiki-like content management and delivery system. It can store both the site's content and structure in a RDF store and lets you create abstract RDF resources the same way you'd create a wiki name. Rhizome also introduces a few other technologies that may be of interest: * Racoon <http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/Racoon> is a simple application server that uses an RDF model for its data store, roughly analogous to RDF as Apache Cocoon <http://cocoon.apache.org/> is to XML. * RhizML <http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/RhizML> is a Wiki <http://c2.com/cgi/wiki>-like text formatting language that lets you write arbitrary XML or HTML, enabling you to author XML documents with (nearly) the same ease as a Wiki entry. * RxML <http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/RxML> is an alternative XML serialization for RDF that is designed for easy authoring in RhizML <http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/RhizML>, allowing novices to author and edit RDF metadata. The Rhizome and RxRDF implementations are alpha quality -- but the Rx4RDF website is running on it so you can see (and play with) them in action. Any feedback is much appreciated, particularly as this is the first release (and public announcement). regards, adam
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