[DAS] discussion document for das/2

[Bradley Marshall]

I don't know much about UDDI, but as a follow-up to my
earlier comments, here's an interesteing article
discussing WSDL in the context of RDF:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-rdf/?dwzone=ws

Brad


--- Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org> wrote:
> 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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