RE: ANNOUNCEMENT: RDFStyles: alternative to XSLT for RDF

Yes, I misunderstood you.

I have not been coding XSL for the last year, so my brain got a little
fuzzy here.

> 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?


Ok, for this we have to go deeper into existing work and should base on
that.
What is "*" to an actual resource ?
perhaps something like Patrick Sticklers' "Concise Bounded Resource
Description" ?

In RDFTwig, the problem was solved with the "twig" or "branch" etc.
definitions, our "*" equivalent would be the "leaf" thing.
http://rdftwig.sourceforge.net/paper/index.html#leaf
I have not used this yet and think, the syntax is a bit long. But the
idea in RDFTwig is very fine, a good combination of XSLT and RDF.

In Treehugger this would mean to select f.e. all properties of the
Resource
http://rdfweb.org/people/damian/treehugger/introduction.html
<xsl:value-of select="./foaf:name/text()"/>
will return the foaf:name property of the current node, in textual form.
I haven't found out exactly how to select all subnodes, but you will
generally do something like 
"./*/text()"

In RDFPath
http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~km/rpath-eng/rpath.html
this would go into the direction (out:-).
and I can't guess the correct syntax, I don't understand their paper
fully but it looks good. probably the "*" would be a "*" in their view.
vertic A - property b - Vertic C
(A is context)
"@*" i think selects C....



So there are a lot attempts to do the "*" selection and as Damian Steer
has pointed out in Section 5 of 
http://rdfweb.org/people/damian/treehugger/introduction.html
it is good to use some XPAth like syntax (RDFPath) and then convert it
to RDQL statemtnes, this approach sounds solid to me.

interesting topic !

greetings
Leo Sauermann
www.gnowsis.com


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Received on Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:21:48 UTC