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Hi Eve, Ev Even though XLink and RDF are targeted at different purposes, it's still a fair observation that XLink has a lot (not all) of the power of RDF. For info on a suggested way to map XLink to RDF, see the note "Harvesting RDF Statements from XLinks": http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink2rdf/ Didier replies: In fact, with a little will, both could be merged. For instance. an RDF expression refer to a particular resource by <rdf:description about="http://www.talvastudio.com"> and includes a list of properties. What about the following thing: <mylink xlink:type="extended" etc...> <myresource xlink:type="locator" xlink:href=""http://www.talvastudio.com"> .... a list of property elements about this resource .... </myresource> </mylink> You would have then a semantic link. A link that includes some meta information about a resource. You kill two birds at the same time. The link could be interpreted by a plain xlink engine. Or this could also be intrepreted a collection of resources each resource having some meta information. A merge of Topic maps concepts and RDF concept. The solution is not too far. The only problem though is will and politics :-) cheers Didier PH Martin
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