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Re: patterns vs. identifiers

• To: Mike Haarman <mhaarma@s...>
• Subject: Re: patterns vs. identifiers
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 19:15:15 -0600
• Cc: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Mike Haarman <mhaarma@s...> of "Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:55:58 CDT." <Pine.GSO.4.30.0208192125240.14034-100000@t...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Mike Champion wrote:
> 
> > I think this gets to the heart of Simon's point: He's asserting, and
> > I'm agreeing, that you DON'T need something like Cyc or a huge
> > RDF ontology to disambuguate / figure out how to process markup
> > via its context rather than an elaborate system of identifiers.
> 
> Yes, yes! man.

OK.  So maybe you can explain this more clearly, because it is clear as mud to 
me.  Based on the bare threads I think I can gather from this statement, and 
Simon's, it seems obvious to me that:

1)  RDF does not require identifiers for "disambiguation" or any human 
facility at all.  Never has.  In fact, RDF's "requirement" of identifiers is 
*exactly* as strong as XSLT's.  IS XSLT also an example of "identifier evil"?

2)  I am quite confused as to how RDF comes into the picture.  Who is saying 
that RDF should be used to explain markup structures?  What does this have to 
do with namespaces, XHTML or any such matter?


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