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Re: RDF was a bully (was Re: RDF and the new release

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• Subject: Re: RDF was a bully (was Re: RDF and the new releases)
• From: "Dave Winer" <dave@u...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:50:37 -0800
• References: <EBEPLGMHCDOJJJPCFHEFEEJOIHAA.danny666@v...>

What I meant of course is that RSS 0.90 was in no way a foundation for all
the dreams people have for RDF. It's basically an XML format, and not a very
widely supported one. Don't be confused. Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: RE:  RDF was a bully (was Re:  RDF and the new
releases)


>
> >0.90 was not in any way RDF-compliant.
>
> !
>
> see the cached version of Netscape's RSS) 0.9 spec:
> http://www.purplepages.ie/RSS/netscape/rss0.90.html
>
>
> If you still have any doubts, try copying the sample into the W3C RDF
> validator:
>
> http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/
>
> Lovely graph!
> Lovely triples!
> Valid RDF!
>
> A certain amount of FUD is to be expected from vendors that have staked
> their reputation (and probably their dollars) on a different horse, but
this
> is remarkable. On xml-dev. I'm speechless.
>
>
>
>
>
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