[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )

• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:35:26 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Mike Champion <mc@x...> of "Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:04:45 EST." <oprf19d7gnezizxn@localhost>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:39:03 -0500, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...> 
>  wrote:
> 
> > The W3C (via QNames, URIs uber alles, and now RDDL/RDF) and various
> > people (Liam Quin, for instance) who seem to suggest on a regular basis
> > that adding RDF to the core of XML would improve it.
> 
> This really is the nub of the issue.  Anyone wondering why people involved 
> in the other
> parts of the W3C (or subject to its whims as part of their day jobs, as is 
> Simon)
> often have a knee-jerk, testy, even irrational reaction to various
> aspects of RDF need look no further. Insistence on political correctness
> -- or P18S, it really needs one of these contractions all its own ;-) -- 
> elicits a
> strongly cynical reaction whereever it is imposed, and the Web is no 
> different.

"Political correctness" is an extremely content-free term, so let us please 
just ditch it now.  As I see it used, it means "some idea by someone I 
disagree with for some reason they think they're entitled to have".  Not 
terribly useful in intelligent discourse.

As such, I tend to see the ecent RDF-bashing as PC.  You seem to think of RDF 
itself as PC.  See what I mean?  The term is useless.  Leave it among the 
drags of unimaginative political punditry, where it belongs.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/py.html
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/index.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/index.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807
Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html

• Follow-Ups:
  • RE: The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )
    • From: "Don Park" <donpark@d...>
  • Re: The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

• References:
  • The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )
    • From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>

• Prev by Date: How to describe assembly or topology relation in XML
• Next by Date: RE: OT - Re: The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )
• Previous by thread: The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )
• Next by thread: Re: The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread