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Guha sez: There have been a number of questions about Netscape RDF files, most notably http://home.netscape.com/netcenter.rdf. Here are some comments in that regard. Though the files are technically valid RDF as per the February public draft of the RDF spec, I have to admit that they do miss the "spirit" of RDF and need improvement. [...] I'm glad to hear that you agree that they should be made closer in spirit to the RDF spec. The (elided) points about namespaces and Dublin core were my major concerns, so I'm glad that you also consider those to be easy fixes. In addition, there has been some criticism of these files using the RDF abbreviation. In this regard, I must defend these files --- I strongly believe that the RDF abbreviation is a good thing. However, if there are aspects of the abbreviation that make them hard to read, I (and the rdf wg) would like to know so that we can fix it. After a little practical experience last week with the full vs. the abbreviated form, I agree with Guha that the abbreviated syntax is "A Good Thing"TM. This is not to say that it is easy to read or write directly until you have had some practice. However, at least in the cases we looked at last week, it ended up being fairly close in appearance to things that had been specified using a custom DTD (modulo the namespace prefixes). This makes the acceptance of RDF far more palatable than it would be with the unabbreviated syntax. Regards, Ron Daniel Jr. DATAFUSION, Inc. 139 Townsend Street, Ste. 100 San Francisco, CA 94107 415.222.0100 fax 415.222.0150 rdaniel@d... http://www.datafusion.net 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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