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Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>* Simon St Laurent
>| 
>| I worry about RDF (and URIs generally) poisoning XML, 
>

I don't agree that RDF is contaminating XML; the two technologies simply 
have different semantics and processing - i.e. for URIs (consider 
fragment identifiers for example; RDF is incapable of preserving the 
partition) and some people may be using namespaces in RDF to denote or 
point to schemas/vocabularies.

>How would it do that? As far as I can tell the two are entirely
>separate, except that one of the RDF syntaxes is based on XML.
>
>| [...] So far, I think XHTML has chosen carefully and avoided the
>| really toxic bits.
>

.. while it does seem to handle URIs in a more reasonable way, mostly to 
it's retreive-oriented semantics (apart from namespaces).

>Quite possibly. Personally, I would have been happier if they had not
>only changed frames, but also fixed the most broken aspects of them.
>Pages should ask to be wrapped in framesets, not the other way around.
>

I dissagree. Inline inclusion of documents cannot be replaced by 
framesets and iframes provide a much better and predictable interface to 
ECMAScript and URLs pointing to e.g. images, than XInclude would ever will.

Kindest regards,

Manos


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