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At 11:31 PM 29/01/98 +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote: >In another forum the RDF people agreed that they *could* use the standard >DTD syntax to markup the information they wanted. This statement is incorrect. In fact, RDF, like many other SGML applications, has syntactic restrictions on what you can do that go well beyond what's expressible in DTDs. The RDFers feel (rightly) that what they want to achieve ought to be within the reach of a declarative schema facility, and are concerned that none such exists. But I'm pretty sure that's not why XML-Data exists. >RDF does not need a new declaration syntax. They just don't want to be >standard. Inflammatory statements like this are defensible only when they're accurate. This one is not. >This being the case, XML-data should not use "XML DTDs cannot support the >needs of super-hyper-important things like RDF" as a justification for >what they are doing. It is just as easy to conclude from the evidence that XML-Data is in direct competition with RDF and RDF-Schema. I honestly don't know what the understanding of the authors of XML-Data is as regards things like RDF, and so far, nobody has said. -T. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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