- From: Adam Souzis <adam-l@souzis.com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:31:41 -0800
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Rx4RDF is application stack for building RDF-based applications and web sites. Rhizome is a Wiki-like content management and delivery system built on Rx4RDF that generalizes the wiki concept in several ways. What's new? RxPath has been completely reimplemented. Enhancements include: signficant performance boost, incrementally updates of the underlying model, atomic transactions and rollback, and RDF model independence through a simple API (includes adapters for 4Suite and Redland). Racoon is also signficantly faster as result of adding various caches throughout the request pipeline (taking advantage of the (nearly) side-effect free nature of XPath and XSLT). Rhizome now provides an optional staging/release workflow. In addition, there have several other enhancements, see http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/Rx4RDFChangelog for more details. More Info: * 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 (dubbed RxPath, RxSLT, and RxUpdate respectively). * Racoon is a simple application server that uses an RDF model for its data store, roughly analogous to RDF as Apache Cocoon is to XML. Racoon uses RxPath to translate arbitrary requests (currently HTTP, XML-RPC and command line arguments) to RDF resources, each of which can be associated with RxSLT and RxUpdate stylesheets. * Rhizome is a Wiki-like content management and delivery system built on Racoon that takes the concept of the Wiki to the next level: everything is editable, not just content but its meta-data and behavior, even the structure of the site itself. Furthermore, wiki entries are abstract globally unique RDF resources that can have any kind of content and whose presentation is contextual. Rhizome includes a couple of other stand-alone technologies that maybe of interest: * RhizML is a 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 is an alternative XML serialization for RDF that is designed for easy authoring in RhizML, allowing novices to author and edit RDF metadata. Homepage: http://rx4rdf.liminalzone.org/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=85676 -- adam (asouzis @ user.sf.net)
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