XML [SCL] Issues and proposals (details)

Tanel Tammet tammet at staff.ttu.ee
Wed Jan 15 16:18:31 CST 2003


Christopher Menzel wrote:
>> This does not mean avoiding
>> RDF, quite the opposite: IMHO a "semantic translation"
>> should be into RDF, not SCL-XML.
> 
> 
> But how is that possible given RDF's expressive limitations, Tanel?  
> Perhaps I am not understanding what you mean by a "semantic translation".

A translation where we encode predicates RDF-style (also encoding N-ary 
predicates via a set of new predicates) and add our semantics to parts
of the language (saying that some things are implications, negations,
variables etc, although they have no such "default" meaning in RDF itself).

Regards,
         Tanel Tammet








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