- From: Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:33:44 +0200
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: "Kirkham, Pete (UK)" <pete.kirkham@baesystems.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Jeremy Carroll wrote: > Three triples > > _:a rdf:type r1:date . > _:a xxx:transform eg:r2-to-r1.xsl . > _:a rdf:value "4th June 2004" . > > We might expect xxx:transform to have semantics along the lines of > > "the object of this statement is an XSLT transform that when applied > to the subject serialized in such-and-such a way gives additional > triples that are also true." > > This could constitute a semantic extension to RDF as defined in RDF > Semantics. I was hoping it might fit. > > Given this the three triples are monotonic in that if we delete any of > them the result still holds. > > > === > > The hardest bit I see is the "such-and-such": I think TriX would make > it easier. RDF/XML has too much variability. Yep, definitely a snag there. XSLT seems such a tidy little mechanism, I was hoping it might work for something like this that's kind-of on the surface. But the idea doesn't seem anything like as convincing when the statements are expressed as n3. > FWIW I agree with Damian that it might be better to hang this off a > class. Thanks guys, I'll ponder. Cheers, Danny. -- Raw http://dannyayers.com
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