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David Megginson wrote: > > Yes, but then I lose the advantage of being able to use higher-level > APIs to access the information. I could use UTF-8 without XML to > encode my documents, but I like that fact that XML parsers do most of > the work of building a tree out of a character stream; likewise, I > like the fact that RDF processors do most of the work of building > objects out of XML documents. #1. What RDF processor are you using? #2. What exactly does it do for you? Most people seem to be using hand-rolled processors for a particular RDF language. I think that's where the confusion arises. You could have also used a processor for a particular "ordinary XML" language and skipped the RDF step. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco If you spend any time administering Windows NT, you're far too familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) which displays the cause of the crash and gives some information about the state of the system when it crashed. -- "Microsoft Developer Network Magazine" 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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