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

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• Subject: RE: The perils of P18S (was Re: Why RDF is hard )
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:27:07 +0100
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>You are confusing Common Sense with Political Correctness.  RDF is
>butt-ugly, confusing, and useless in its current form.

RDF/XML may be butt-ugly and confusing, but IMHO the model is quite the
opposite.

 After years of
>TimBL and W3C pitching RDF hard, I have yet to see a single successful
>application of RDF that couldn't be done without RDF.

I have yet to see an XML application that couldn't be done without XML, so
that argument isn't particularly strong. The point is that in the same way a
lot of applications are considerably easier to implement using XML, quite a
few applications are considerably easier with RDF, and such practical
applications are now popping up all over the place.

>Its not the fire log that is wet, it's the damn match.

It's lit.

Cheers,
Danny.

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