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Re: equivalentTo vs. XSLT

• To: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>, paul@p..., nogievet@c..., xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: equivalentTo vs. XSLT
• From: "m batsis" <mbatsis@n...>
• Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:18:59 +0200
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Miles Sabin wrote:

>Nikita Ogievetsky wrote,
>
>>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 XSL
>>
>
>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.
>

Sorry, I have to dissagree. I cannot imagine even a single case where 
that is true. A transformation can only be applied to a "screenshot" of 
the source data. Also, such an attempt may result in loss of semantic 
info. A transformation may result in a correct mapping between 
ontologies, but will fail in producing implicit statements that would 
result from those mappings after applied with equivalentTo.

Cheers,

Manos

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