BSWL - Basic Semantic Web Language

Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:52:08 +0100
From:      "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
To:        www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Subject:   BSWL - Basic Semantic Web Language

I'm pleased to announce a new proposal for a stripped down RDF-in-XML syntax called "BSWL" or the "Basic Semantic Web Language". The proposal is available on the Web at:

http://purl.org/net/bswl

Briefly, the features advantages over RDF M&S are:

Simpler syntax - no typed or anonymous nodes, allows one to form triples simply by nesting QNames
Has a special syntax for referring to XML QNames
Forces you to use xml:lang as part of the model, so it isn't lost
Allows you to nest triples so that the subject of the former triple becomes the object of the latter triple
Is possible to convert back into RDF M&S, and vice versa (once RDF Core decide what to do about anonymous nodes)
Files using abbreviated BSWL tend to be shorter than RDF M&S

An example of a BSWL chunk is:

<bswl:t qname="Sean">
   <bswl:po qname="likes">
     <bswl:o qname="TheSimpsons"/>
   </bswl:po>
</bswl:t>

Which can be shortened using abbreviated BSWL into:

<Sean>
   <likes>
     <TheSimpsons/>
   </likes>
</Sean>

Further details are available in the proposal itself.

Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
@prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/>
:Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/>

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See "Resource Description Framework (RDF)."

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