Re: [office-metadata] RDF/XML and XPath

[Elias Torres <eliast@us.ibm.com>]

Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM wrote on 02/09/2007 01:44:48 PM:

> Hello Elias,
>
> many thanks for the examples.
> The multiple forms of RDF/XML are indeed a problem for XPath and XSLT.
> Do you think the limitations on the encoding set might ease the work of
> others (e.g. XSLT on our RDF/XML)?

I don't have any top of my head. I think constraining our RDF/XML encoding
set in a correct, extensible and interoperable way is definitely more than
we can handle given our time constraints. I think we should leave RDF/XML
as is for now and not focus too much on XSLT/XPath working with it. In all
my work with RDF, I have not needed them, not sure why we need them now.

>
> Any detailed suggestions for our proposal?

For which proposal? The RDF/XML + XForms one? I'm not sure, really. During
our last meeting, I mentioned how I was confused with the XForms data
binding solution and why it was introduced, therefore I can't think of
suggestions.

>
> Best regards,
> Svante
>
> Elias Torres wrote:
> > I also found a presentation that sort of validates the problem by
proposing
> > a solution via XSLT extensions. If you see how much is needed via XSLT
+
> > extensions, you might concur that it's not possible to do so with XPath
> > alone.
> >
> > http://rdftwig.sourceforge.net/paper/pres/slides.pdf
> >
> > -Elias
> >
> >