> I was hoping that you, the other person who replied about transforming > rules from XML, or any of the other people transforming rules from XML > could say something about the motivation there. Is it simply a neutral > authoring technique affording the potential to use/retarget the ruleset > with/to multiple rule engines or do you perceive some other advantage > over writing raw Jess?
I'd say the motivation is almost always the former -- having a way to publish and share knowledge in the form of rules that can then be translated into executable form in any of several languages. If you are interested in this you can check out (1) RuleML http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/ (2) Web pages for the International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/gwagner/RuleML-BR-SW.html (4) various papers and such on Benjamin Grosof's web pages http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/ (3) Benjamin Grosof, Mahesh Gandhe, and Tim Finin, SweetJess: Translating DamlRuleML to Jess, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web 14 June 2002, Sardinia (Italy) in conjunction with the First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002). http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/iscw02/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
