[rules-dev] RIF PRD translation effort to/from Drools & Jess

[Edson Tirelli]

   Pierre,

   Good to see works like yours being done.

   Drools has an internal canonical model that we use to round trip rules
between the syntaxes we support. The best way of supporting "RIF" in Drools
is to simply add a parser that parses RIF and populates the canonical model.
>From that we have a DRL "dumper" that generates DRL, enabling the RIF->DRL
translation. Also, if we create a RIF "dumper", one can then generate RIF
rules from the canonical model, enabling DRL->RIF translation. That assumes
that there is a 1-to-1 semantic mapping between RIF and DRL (I believe there
is, but didn't checked).

   Edson


2011/2/9 <pdl at agh.edu.pl>

> Mark, Andrew, Guys,
>
> Yes working with DRL may be better for Drools indeed. But the only way I
> see this working is by implementing this directly in the code of Drools.
> That's not practical for me, hence I "simply" export/import the rules
> in/from XML. This way I can focus on the translation.
>
> If someone would give me pointers on an easy way to work with DRL, I'd do
> that of course.
>
> I assume you already had discussions on XML (or anything more structured
> and widely spread than DRL) as working format so I won't be going there :)
>
> All the best,
> Pierre
>
>
> On 09/02/2011 16:46, Mark Proctor wrote:
> > On 09/02/2011 08:40, pdl at agh.edu.pl wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've been working on translators between RIF-PRD, DroolsML and JessML.
> >> I've put the translators in the form of XSLT stylesheets on the
> following
> >> web site along with samples of rules written in the above languages. I
> >> would greatly appreciate feedback/comments/tips/help on making these
> >> translators more reliable and accurate.
> >>
> >> Web site: yieldrif (dot) appspot (dot) com  (in case emails containing
> >> URLs are bounced off)
> >>
> >> Please note that this is free hosting and has some limitations. Feel
> free
> >> to add/comment content on this web site or drop me a line. What would
> be
> >> really helpful is a XML Schema for DroolsML and also the rhs to be in
> XML
> >> as opposed to drools code.
> > Is this converting to Drools DRL? or to our deprecate, unmaintained, out
> > of date and very old XML?
> Sorry someone just read that sentence back to me, and it probably read
> very wrong.
>
> Let me start again. First up great work, it's good to see any
> interchange work happening, it's not easy stuff. And I can't wait for us
> to figure out how to get this working directly against our more recent
> DRL :)
>
> Mark
> > Mark
> >> I look forward to hearing from you,
> >> Pierre
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  Edson Tirelli
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