Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: RDFStyles: alternative to XSLT for RDF

Leo Sauermann wrote:

>>the problem is not just addressing RDFPath expressions, but also 
>>instructions associated with these expressions. What I meant by 
>>select="*" was not just how to have something equivalent in 
>>rdfpath, but 
>>what should be considered as equivalent, given the fact that 
>>we have a 
>>potentially cyclic graph and not a tree?
> 
> 
> 
> no problem, Jena does show this very good:
> A graph consists of triples, and those are counted. All queries work on
> the triples. If you do a select "*" you get all triples, which is ok, if
> you need it and have a limited model.
> 
> greetings
> Leo
> www.gnowsis.com
> 

I think there is some kind of misunderstanding here. What you are 
describing is, in my opinion, closer to what the following would do for 
XPath on an XML tree:
  <xsl:apply-templates select="//*" />

What I was considering was an equivalent of:
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*" />

which only selects children of the context node and thus limits the 
scope of application of the XSLT instruction.

The question is, can we even conceptually define an equivalent of this 
for a general directed graph?

Emmanuel

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Received on Thursday, 30 October 2003 07:46:18 UTC