[redland-dev] OWL Tools

[Curtis Hovey]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 11:49, MagdiRH at aol.com wrote:
> HI All,
> 
>    I am new to OWL and would like assistant from the development
> community.
>    I am currently developing code under LINUX and using C++.
> 
>    I would like to use an OWL tool which can generate, and validate
> OWL and 
>    also generate OWL executable in C/C++. Can someone let me know what
>    is out there that can do the job.
> 
>    Can I use Redland?

Probably not not for your use, unless you are willing to add the OWL
functionality to librdf.

>    Can Redland be used as a parser and validates for OWL?

Not at this time.

>    Can Redland be used with LINUX and C/C++?

The C API is Redland's native API and you works on Linux.  There is no
C++ binding, but you can use the native C.

>    Can Redland generates OWL executable?

I don't under this question.  You may link to librdf so you have the
full RDF processing engine in your executable, or you dynamically link
to the .so.  OWL being a markup language cannot be executed, and it has
nothing remotely like an instruction to execute.

>    Can Redland deal with OWL if it is used as an Expert System like
> CLIPS?

I think redland would work very well in an expert system.  But without
OWL, there is no native mechanism to validate and enforce the meaning of
the data.
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