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Re: XML/RDF

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• Subject: Re: XML/RDF
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:39:02 +0000
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Paul Prescod wrote,
> Miles Sabin wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > I prefer the other option too.
> >
> > But it's not clear to me what this has to do with RDF or DAML. Once
> > you've defined a mapping between the vocabularies (and if you want
> > to get fancy, between the choreographies too), and what useful job
> > is there left for assertions and reasoners to do?
>
> I would define the mapping _as_ a RDF/DAML(OWL) assertion using
> DAML's (OWL's) equivalentTo relationship.

Maybe I should have said transformation rather than mapping.

I'll try again: once you've defined an executable transformation (eg. 
using XSLT), what useful job is there left for RDF/DAML/OWL to do?

Cheers,


Miles

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