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• Subject: Re: ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and modularity
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 10:54:36 -0400
• In-reply-to: <731165524.20030426154017@i...>

iand@i... (Ian Davis) writes:
>XML doesn't need fixing.

That's good to hear.

>Using XML to solve certain classes of
>problems where extensibility of the data model is required does need a
>general solution. 

Unfortunately you've chosen a solution where your choice of data model
imposes costs on those who have other priorities.  I don't believe data
model extensibility is a usefully solvable problem in a general way, so
my interest in paying those costs is considerably lower than your
interests in imposing them.

>I'm sure you could represent the RDF data model in
>ASN.1 but I haven't tried it.

ASN.1 folks seem generally more willing to pay a price for convenient
_program_ access to information.

>Funny. Mixed content on really makes sense in the XML/SGML domain.
>What does it mean to have mixed content in a CSV file?

It doesn't make sense, which is one key criteria for choosing XML over
CSV - or RDF.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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