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In tackling the Semantic Web, a rich domain that requires special attention is the Geospatial Semantic Web. A contribution to the Geospatial semantic Web is the definition of an approach for integrating non-spatial resources like HTML, PDF, GIF, etc., with spatial XML resources represented by Spatial XML [4]. However, in order to put this approach into practice it is necessary to solve the problem of developing an integration system for querying spatial XML resources stored in different sources. In this paper, we have implemented an approach for querying spatial and non-spatial information represented in the Geographical Markup Language (GML). The approach uses RDF to integrate the spatial XML documents. A performance study has been carried out and the results are given.
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Córcoles, J.E., González, P. (2004). Using RDF to Query Spatial XML. In: Koch, N., Fraternali, P., Wirsing, M. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27834-4_40
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