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Re: Issues with XML and Semantic Web ?

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• Subject: Re: Issues with XML and Semantic Web ?
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:32:22 -0800
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Tim Bray wrote:
> Just a reminder that the RDF.net challenge is still open: see 
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/21/RDFNet (you can skip 
> all the history and markup-pedantry and jump to the challenge itself, at 
> the bottom of that essay).  -Tim

I read the history and markup-pedantry and skipped the challenge :)

I agree that the "RDF-the-idea a whole lot better than RDF the actual 
technology." And your sample syntax is a whole lot better than RDF's 
syntax. But I have trouble believing that RDF will go anywhere as long 
as it depends on URIs like:

    http://www.example.com/terms/editor

Let's face it. I want to write about Bob, Bob's house, the address of 
Bob's house, and the color of Bob's house, not:

    http://www.example.com/terms/person
    http://www.example.com/terms/name
    http://www.example.com/terms/house
    http://www.example.com/terms/owner
    http://www.example.com/terms/address
    http://www.example.com/terms/color
    ...

-- Ron

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