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RE: XML-based Automation (Was: Zen or Games?)

• To: "Dave Pawson" <dpawson@n...>,"Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: RE: XML-based Automation (Was: Zen or Games?)
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:38:35 +0200
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• Reply-to: <danny666@v...>

> >So here is a fun puzzle for the cognoscenti.  Can John Sowa's
> >rules be applied to XML using XSLT or am I just taking too few
> >or too many medications? ;-)
> >
> >http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/analog.htm
> >
> >Or does this require RDF?
>
> Not claiming to be anywhere near coginscenti, but hey Len,
> What the heck can RDF do that is even close to XSLT?

Probably this particular example for a start. The Conceptual Graph model
Sowa uses throughout his work isn't that far removed from the one underlying
RDF. In fact Tim Berners-Lee [1] and others have considered mappings. I'm
sure Analogical Reasoning could be done with XSLT, but you'd have to start
by coming up with some way of representing the arbitrary graph structure of
the entities and relationships first, over which you could apply the
appropriate transformations. That would probably mean reinventing RDF.

Cheers,
Danny.

[1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CG.html

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