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The
REWERSE Rule
Markup Language (R2ML) is developed by the
REWERSE Working Group I1 for the purpose of rules interchange between different systems and tools.
Scope
- An
XML based rule language;
- Support for: integrity rules, derivation rules, production rules and reaction rules;[
citation needed]
- Integrate functional languages (such as
OCL) with
Datalog languages (such as
SWRL);
- Serialization and interchange of rules by specific software tools;
- Integrating rule
reasoning with actual server side technologies;
- Deploying, publishing and communicating rules in a network.
Design principles
- Modeled using
MDA;
- Rule concepts defined with the help of
MOF/
UML;
- Required to accommodate:
- Web naming concepts, such as
URIs and
XML namespaces;
- The ontological distinction between objects and data values;
- The
datatype concepts of
RDF and user-defined datatypes;
- Actions (following OMG PRR submission);
- Events;
-
EBNF abstract syntax;
-
XML based concrete syntax validated by an
XML Schema;
- Allowing different semantics for rules.
See also
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