• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and modularity
• From: "Doug Ransom" <Doug.Ransom@p...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:47:11 -0700
• Thread-index: AcMKcQd5JEwtnNPASaKkC50/t7CgPQAD6J6A
• Thread-topic: ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and modularity

I think the fable is an excellent example of how programmer productivity is suffering because we use XML rather than RDF over XML for many similar applications.  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 7:50 AM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  ANN: Article on using RDF to provide
> extensibility and modularity
> 
> 
> Perhaps we should just rename this list rdf-dev, since XML is so
> obviously inadequate for information representation on so many fronts.
> 
> Maybe we can just build a reservation for those of us, myself 
> included,
> who find RDF mostly useless for the kinds of information 
> processing they
> consider interesting, and let the RDF folks take over what remains of
> the hype wave XML once generated.
> 
> -- 
> Simon St.Laurent
> Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
> Errors, errors, all fall down!
> http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an
> initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org>
> 
> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
> 
> To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription
> manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
> 
> 

• Follow-Ups:
  • RE: ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and modularity
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Re: ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and modularity
    • From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>

• Prev by Date: RE: Data streams and schema use and identification
• Next by Date: RE: Statistical vs "semantic web" approaches to makingsense of the Net
• Previous by thread: RE: Statistical vs "semantic web" approaches to makingsense of the Net
• Next by thread: Re: ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and modularity
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread