[DAS] discussion document for das/2

[Lincoln Stein]

Is there anything to prevent DAML+OIL from interoperating with UDDI?

Lincoln

On Thursday 06 December 2001 16:58, Bradley Marshall wrote:
> > DAML OIL is pretty cool (I just started reading
> > about it today).  I'm open to
> > using it to describe the relationships among
> > annotations.  I'm not clear on
> > how exactly the DAML world interoperates with the
> > WSDL, XML Schema, and
> > SOAP worlds.  Could someone explain?
> >
> > Lincoln
>
> Essentially, DAML+OIL is a different approach than the
> WSDL, SOAP, XML Schema world.  This is not to say that
> they're totally seperate.  ie, a DAML+OIL ontology can
>  in many cases be described with XML schema.  However,
> I don't think this is the norm.  There is a DAML+OIL
> format that is analogous to WSDL.  And, since they're
> all XML, you can build converters between them using
> XSLT.
>
> The important thing to understand about DAML+OIL is
> it's a layer on top of RDF.  RDF is very important,
> since it allows you to build arbitrary graph
> structures which can be encoded in XML.  This is a big
> benefit when you consider that vanilla XML only allows
> you to create tree structures.  Also, since RDF relies
> on universal identifiers, there is a straightforward
> way to combine the information from multiple documents
> into one graph, another advantage over vanilla XML.
>
> Brad
>
>
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