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 At 12:27 PM 9/25/00 -0700, Lisa Rein wrote: >Well the list includes technical inaccuracies such as this: > >"(ICE and RDF are overlapping attempts to describe > types of Internet-accessible data)" > >ICE is an XML-based syndication format. RDF is an abstract model for >representing relationships between web-based resources. Not even >closely related -- although they may be used together in the future. To >say that they are overlapping attempts at doing the same thing (as if >they were both failing somehow or were redundant in nature) and to use >this faulty comparison as an example of why xml "won't work", is unfair >to new people trying to learn, and just plain irresponsible from a >journalistic standpoint. I'd call this a weak example, not a 'dead wrong' - I've heard a fair number of people wishing that ICE had a more RDF-like foundation. (Those criticisms come up for a fair number of XML-based specs, actually.) I'd rather he'd used RSS vs. CDF, or any of the conflicting vertical market possibilities, but I can't say I find this to be wildly irresponsible journalism. (There were a bunch of tutorials early on that used <xml> for the XML declaration, and there are still a lot of strange claims made about namespaces, URIs, and various other XML parts that strike me as a lot more irresponsible.) >most of these "stupid articles" just needed a fact check before they >went to press. i always fact checked my articles, even when there used >to be only about 200 people in the world capable of providing it. Now >there are at least 2,000 -- so i say "no excuses". I'd have put a warning RDF vs. ICE, not a fatal error, personally. I get the feeling that you're irritated by seeing claims that XML isn't perfect, and looking for nits to attack the author's credibility. >anyway, when i have time this week, i will list the inaccuracies and >email them to those of you that have asked. there are many more of them, >and i do already have them documented, but i need to weed out the >insulting commentary and stick to the facts (for everyone's sake :-) I'll look forward to that. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books 
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