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If I understand TimBL's article, it isn't so much that XML is inconsistent, documents written for human consumption order the presentation of ideas. To RDF and most machines, that order isn't significant; a clean graph is. The human acquires concepts in the order they read them (and BTW, iaw their emotional response to them, and that is often lost in pure logic systems). So XML as Simon says, has to be able to work for the human where order is important. RDF has to work for the predicate logic processor. XML is consistent in its own definitions of syntax, structure and optional namespaces, but it has to be able to express constructs that are ambiguous because a human can handle those (the handler is paralogical). Again, the win-win seems to be to stripe the XML with RDF constructs. len -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@h...] No problem. Well, the main difference is that RDF is consistent while XML is not.
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