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[Simon St. Laurent:] > I'm pondering the state of transformations in XML ... [snip] > Lately I've been thinking about using RDF to map > relationships among vocabularies, though mostly I've got > some pictures rather than RDF documents.... [snip] > My favorite case is simple translation of element names, > where markup needs to be presented to the user in his or > her native language. While many technologies are capable > of doing this, making it work is pretty tricky when > multiple languages are involved. There's no unifying > dictionary mechanism for querying 'is-a' relationships by > language keys. Instead, there are a lot of different ways > to transform one element to another and preserve the > content along the way. Check out the topic maps paradigm (ISO/IEC 13250:2000). The big news about topic maps is that the XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0 Specification will be unveiled at XTM Special Interest Day on December 4, just before XML 2000 in Washington D.C. It offers features that could make topic maps just what you're looking for as a unifying dictionary mechanism. A single topic can have multiple names, each characterized by a "scope" that is a set of topics. One popular use of such scoping topics is to use natural languages, among other things, as topics for differently scoping the various names that one-and-the-same topic can have. As discussed in the context of the XTM work (xtm-wg@e... -- a public list), there may soon be a useful relationship between RDF and XTM topic maps. This happy possibility resulted, in part, from the "RDF vs. Topic Maps" discussion at the Extreme Markup Languages Conference in Montreal last August (this is a shameless plug for next year's conference, also in Montreal in August; see www.gca.org for details). Anyway, I'm optimistic. -Steve -- Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant srn@c... voice: +1 972 359 8160 fax: +1 972 359 0270 405 Flagler Court Allen, Texas 75013-2821 USA
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