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Re: equivalentTo vs. XSLT

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• Subject: Re: equivalentTo vs. XSLT
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:40:54 +0000
• In-reply-to: <012f01c2898f$3249ef30$1101a8c0@VAIOCOGI>
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Nikita Ogievetsky wrote,
> Miles Sabin wrote:
> > I don't think anyone would say that using XSLT transforms to map
> > between vocabularies is in any interesting sense a SW technology.
> > And yet it seems to be enough to cover one of the primary use-cases
> > for OWL. Which takes us back to Mikes earlier question,
>
> OWL engine can be implemented in any language.
> As I understand it correctly, all you are saying is that OWL can at
> least partially be implemented in XSLT.

Not quite. I'm saying that vocabulary to vocabulary mappings can be 
expressed in XSLT as well as in OWL, and I'm suggesting that for many 
practical purposes XSLT is likely to be a better bet.

Cheers,


Miles

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