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Extending XQuery for Semantic Web Reasoning

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In this paper we investigate an extension of the XQuery language for querying and reasoning with OWL-style ontologies. The proposed extension incorporates new primitives (i.e. boolean operators) in XQuery for the querying and reasoning with OWL-style triples in such a way that XQuery can be used as query language for the Semantic Web. In addition, we propose a Prolog-based implementation of the extension.

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  1. Dpto. de Lenguajes y Computación, Universidad de Almería, Spain

    Jesús Manuel Almendros-Jiménez

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    Salvador Abreu

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    Dietmar Seipel

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Almendros-Jiménez, J.M. (2011). Extending XQuery for Semantic Web Reasoning. In: Abreu, S., Seipel, D. (eds) Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management. INAP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6547. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20589-7_8

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