Yes, it is possible to have rule chaining in SPIN. By default, the TopSPIN engine doesn't implement this though, and does a fix-point iteration only. I am yet to be convinced that many real-world use cases really require rule chaining. In most cases that I have seen, rules don't even depend on each other, and just link from one source structure into a target structure.
In any case, it is often a good alternative to place the computation of values that depend on each other into SPIN functions and magic properties. This way you can exactly control what gets computed to help with other computations. Holger On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:36 PM, aziza wrote: > HI everyone, > want to know: whether it's possible to have Rule Chaining (like Jena > Rules have) in SPIN? > Aziza > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, > TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
