RDF and XML: Towards a Unified Query Layer

Nuno Lopes, Stefan Bischof, Orri Erling, Axel Polleres, Alexandre Passant, Diego Berrueta, Antonio Campos, Jérôme Euzenat, Kingsley Idehen, Stefan Decker, Stéphane Corlosquet, Jacek Kopecky, Janne Saarela, Thomas Krennwallner, Davide Palmisano, Michal Zaremba

Published in: W3C Workshop on RDF Next Steps

2010

Abstract

One of the requirements of current Semantic Web applications is to deal with heterogeneous data. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the W3C recommended standard for data representation, yet data represented and stored using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is almost ubiquitous and remains the standard for data exchange. While RDF has a standard XML representation, XML Query languages are of limited use for transformations between natively stored RDF data and XML. Being able to work with both XML and RDF data using a common framework would be a great advantage and eliminate unnecessary intermediate steps that are currently used when handling both formats.