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Re: RDF and the new releases

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• Subject: Re: RDF and the new releases
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:09:04 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3DD522DD.8010807@t...>

tbray@t... (Tim Bray) writes:
>I'd go further.  I think the current RDF/XML syntax is so B.A.D.
>(broken as designed) that it has seriously got in the way of people
>being open-minded about RDF.  I'm baffled why the RDF working group
>has been forbidden to work on replacing that syntax. -Tim

I'd go further than that, and say that the other major intersection of
XML and URIs, Namespaces in XML, is also broken as designed.

I'm baffled as to why that mess keeps getting implanted more deeply into
XML technologies rather than stripped out and redesigned, or at least
isolated to a minimum field where it can't do additional damage.

>B.A.D. (broken as designed)

I like that.

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