- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:31:43 -0400
- To: drew.mcdermott@yale.edu
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
From: Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu> Subject: RDF for metadata Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:04:20 -0400 (EDT) > > One suggested role for RDF is as metadata for XML. (The "semantics" > of XML as some have imprecisely said.) The idea is that RDF (or > RDF+rules, or RDF+DAML+OIL) would be used to make assertions that > constrain the meaning of XML tags. E.g., if there is a 'family' tag > in some XML vocabulary, so we could write > > <family> > <father><person> ...</person></father> > <mother><person> ...</person></mother> > <children> > <person> ...</person> > <person> ...</person> > </children> > </family> > > then we could give constraints on these symbols. (No child has more > than one mother, or the like.) > > Has anyone actully done this for any existing XML vocabulary? Are > there pointers to such efforts? I'm having trouble visualizing > exactly how RDF would do this job. > > -- Drew McDermott I'm not aware of any. The problem is that (most) XML is not valid RDF. My current efforts are an attempt to provide a model theory for XML that is compatible with RDF. Stay tuned. peter
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