Jeen Broekstra has announced Sesame , an RDF Schema-based Repository and Querying facility. Part of the European IST project On-To-Knowledge, Sesame supports querying of both RDF data and Schema information, using an OQL-style query language, called RQL.
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Questions, Answers, and Tips
Here are a few questions answered by Brian Moran from Sql Magazine.
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Remarks by Bill Gates HailStorm Announcement Redmond, Wash., March 19, 2001. Take a look at what was said.
jd.xslt
XSLT is a language to create so called "stylesheets" containing transformation rules for XML documents. A XSLT processor allows you to apply the stylesheet to a XML document. The transformed output document can be another XML document, a HTML document or any text document.
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