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> I guess I don't see the advantage of this.  Why would we want
> to create our own interface, query syntax, etc. when everyone
> else seems to be implementing Web services?

OK, I just want to be sure we aren't raising the bar for users.

> The provenance information for the translation relies heavily
> on rdf:ID. If we do not offer the provenance info as a
> service then we avoid this problem, but are still faced with
> the encoding problem (see below).

OK, yes, I thought the reified stuff might be complicated.

> I need to play around with this a bit, but I believe this
> will look, to the client, like one big structure.  I'm not
> sure that is particularly useful.

Well, I guess that one big structure is useful when it's passed to an
RDF-aware client ;-)

> I think it would be more
> useful to deliver an XML document that conforms to a
> published schema.  Anyone else have any thought on this?

Pete