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• Subject: Re: patterns vs. identifiers
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:27:08 -0400
• In-reply-to: <3D624F08.F44DFAC8@p...>

Paul Prescod writes:
> That statement is false. Whether you think it succeeded or failed, RDF
> *was* designed with human-readability in mind. A reading of the RDF
> specification will make that clear. 
> 
> "rdf additionally provides a means for publishing both
>      human-readable and machine-processable vocabularies designed to
>      encourage the reuse and extension of metadata semantics among
>      disparate information communities."
> 
> "Highly condensed expressions such as this are discouraged, however,
> when the RDF/XML encoding is written by hand or expected to be edited
> in a plain text editor"

Then I have to ask "which humans"?

XML seems aimed at a much larger group, to say the least.


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http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether

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