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List:       mozilla-rdf
Subject:    Re: Aurora/RDF questions
From:       Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley () Bristol ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1998-08-16 22:47:38
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Guha wrote:
> > Is the Berkeley-DB based graph store binary compatible with other
> > Berkeley implementations? I'm thinking that it would be nice to have
> > a Perl interface to this, for eg. to navigate around my stored
> > bookmarks. And that diving straight into the stored data by using
> > Perl's DB interfaces might be quicker than getting to grips with the
> > Mozilla code.
> 
> Yes, it is the same Berkeley-DB. I don't know about perl interfaces,
> but you will certainly get javascript interfaces.

Perl interfaces to the raw triples data (bypassing all the useful RDF
utility code) should be easy then, since it's easy to get Perl talking
to Berkeley DB files. (Proper interfaces in Perl backended by the
mozilla C code would also be feasible with the Perl XS stuff.). 

Dan

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