Towards types for web rule languages

  • Authors:
  • Włodzimierz Drabent

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the First international conference on Reasoning Web
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Various schema languages have been introduced to describe (classes of) Web documents (DTD, XML Schema, Relax NG). We present mathematical treatment of their main features. We are interested in the sets of documents a schema defines; such sets will be called types. Using a mathematical formalism makes it possible to discuss chosen aspects of a schema language in a precise and simple way. Otherwise they are hidden among numerous details of a large and sophisticated schema language. Our goal is typing of rule languages, more precisely approximately describing their semantics by means of types. Thus we are interested in formalisms for types that facilitate constructing (efficient) algorithms performing those operations on types that are needed in type checking and type inference for rules.