xml-dev - Re: RDF et IDL ?

[Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>]

Mike Spreitzer wrote:
> 
> > 1/ Could it be possible to do a mapping between an RDF schema
> > specification
> > and an IDL interface (a kind of rdftoidl) ? Looking for some
> > information...
> 
> Well, if someone had (1) a mapping between RDF schemas and XML schemas,
> and (2) a mapping between XML schemas and IDL, those would give you what
> you want --- and two mappings that have many further uses themselves!

I think that RDF schemas have a lot more in common with IDL than XML
schemas do...concepts of nodes and properties, properties can be richly
structured etc.

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