Now the short answer.  I think I like the linked rules.  If nothing
else, I just find it a littler more direct and aesthetically pleasing.

Jeff
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Knublauch [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:49 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tbc-users] Re: ANN: TopBraid SPIN API 1.0.2
> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> this is actually an interesting idea. A generic solution 
> would be to assign some numeric value to the sub-properties, 
> e.g. triples
> 
>       my:importRule spin:weight 10 .
>       my:exportRule spin:weight 20 .
> 
> where rules using properties with smaller weight would be 
> executed before the others. Using a sub-property of spin:rule 
> would provide a natural grouping of rules into categories. 
> Alternative to a numeric value would be an explicit 
> spin:executeBefore to relate two rule properties.
> 
> Would this be sufficient for your use case, and which 
> solution sounds cleaner?
> 
> Thanks,
> Holger
> 
> 
> On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Schmitz, Jeffrey A wrote:
> 
> >
> > We certainly have added our own subclasses to spin:rule to control 
> > rule execution, but I think they may be too specific to our 
> > application to add them to the general spin model.
> >
> > Perhaps some kind of directional flow sub-properties (e.g. 
> importRule,
> > exportRule) that could be used directly or could themselves 
> be further 
> > be subclassed would be helpful.  But perhaps even that wouldn't be 
> > general enough.
> >
> > It's not too hard to add and mechanize such concepts locally, but 
> > perhaps you don't want too much fragmentation so the 
> standard SPIN API 
> > can do more of the work?
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Holger Knublauch [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:53 PM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: [tbc-users] ANN: TopBraid SPIN API 1.0.2
> >>
> >>
> >> There is a new version of the SPIN API available from
> >>
> >>    http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraid/spin/api/
> >>
> >> New features include support for Jena 2.6 and for the ARQ keywords 
> >> NOT EXISTS and SERVICE. Note that the current release of 
> TBC (3.1.1) 
> >> does not yet support these two keywords in its SPIN RDF syntax.
> >>
> >> BTW I would appreciate input on how to improve SPIN. For 
> example if 
> >> you have requirements for additional properties to control the 
> >> execution of rules.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Holger
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > >
> 
> 
> > 
> 

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