Re: Device independence and RDF query

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Graham Klyne wrote:
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| I was reading Chris Lilly's comments [1] w.r.t. a TAG position on new
| TLDs; his phrasing suggested an approach to one of the problems that,
| AFAIK, has not really been addressed with respect to the CC/PP and
| device independence work, namely how to use a CC/PP profile to drive
| content selection and adaptation.
|

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| Work on making RDF queries fit in the XPath framework might be deployed
| to make this work more uniformly.
|
| The CC/PP use case that suggests this approach would probably require
| the RDF queries to operate over an inferred RDF graph (e.g. to resolve
| CC/PP default values), so a generic processing tool along these lines
| would incorporate (say) XSLT, RDF query and RDF rules.  As a first
| approximation, imagine, say, a version of CWM integrated with an XSLT
| processor.

Curious that you should mention this. Someone on the device independence
wg list was asking about treehugger, and I think you're right that this
might be an interesting use case for, eg, DAWG.

| Simple RDF query processing is not hard to do, so this might prove to be
| a simple and flexible approach to providing a standard way to mesh
| content adaptation with client capability descriptions.  Inference is a
| little harder, but can be reasonably easily to express in a functional
| language (which XSLT is) given the right query primitives, so this
| doesn't look like a vast leap beyond currently exists;  I think most of
| the details designs already exist.

Treehugger just operates over the jena inferred graph (which has its own
issues). Personally I wouldn't fancy doing eg subclass/property closure
in XSLT (XQuery perhaps) but it's certainly possible, if messy.

| #g
| --

Damian

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Received on Tuesday, 11 May 2004 06:58:45 UTC