Re: RDF query and Rules - my two cents

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:09:36PM +0200, Patrick Stickler wrote:
> > I think a suitable approach would be to build on the existing RDF 
> > remote
> > access API - that of RDF/XML+HTTP. A http GET will retrieve a model 
> > over the
> > network based on a supplied URI. The RESTful continuation would start 
> > with a
> > PUT to place it on the network, DELETE remove it.
> 
> 
> I consider this far too coarse grained to be efficient and generally 
> useful
> (note the important qualification 'generally').

Well, there's a difference between the logical operation and what goes
out "on the wire".  One could use RFC 3229 to send & request deltas, for
example.

Mark.
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Mark Baker.   Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.        http://www.markbaker.ca