[XML-SIG] Groves

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

> uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com wrote:

> > Have you considered adding a few paragraphs on inheritance (in the pu=
re sense,
> > and not funked by C++'s confusions) to your groves short tutorial?  W=
e use a
> > lot of data-polymorphism in our designs and we've had a hard time fig=
uring out
> > how to model that in the grove view.
> =

> Currently the grove view is flat. Groves have no data modelling
> capabilities that do not directly relate to addressing. In my humble
> opinion someone should probably take the best ideas from groves and put=

> them on top of a richer data modelling language like RDF schemas or OMG=

> object definition language. There are too many ways to spell "integer"
> and "attribute" in the world.

Thanks.  Unfortunately, this probably puts practical use of the pure grov=
e =

model on hold for us.  We are actually working heavily with RDF in a curr=
ent =

project, using internal Python/RDF tools that the Python community will =

probably see soon in OSS form, and we'll probably continue to use RDF =

directly.  I shall continue to study the grove model, however, as a means=
 of =

thinking as clearly as possible about data.

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Uche Ogbuji
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