Re: [BioRDF] XSLT or XQuery?

2006-03-06 Thread M. Scott Marshall
chris mungall wrote: I think both approaches are a little too XML-centric; fine for a few use cases but in general the syntax obscures the declarative semantics of the mapping which must be kept as perspicuous as possible. Why not just use an RDF query language? This could be used to query o

Re: [BioRDF] XSLT or XQuery?

2006-03-04 Thread chris mungall
On Mar 1, 2006, at 7:33 AM, Duncan Hull wrote: Matthias Samwald wrote: XSLT definitly is not sufficient for such conversions, I agree. XQuery, however, is much more powerful than XSLT and has most features of a 'full blown programming language'. If you're trying to decide between XSL

Re: [BioRDF] XSLT or XQuery?

2006-03-01 Thread Duncan Hull
Matthias Samwald wrote: XSLT definitly is not sufficient for such conversions, I agree. XQuery, however, is much more powerful than XSLT and has most features of a 'full blown programming language'. If you're trying to decide between XSLT and XQuery to perform some task, this paper by Mic