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Paul Prescod <paul@p...> writes: > Let's try it this way: RDF is hardly taking over the world today. I > claim that that confusion stems primarily from several factors, but > at least one of them is syntax. Well, RDF is making some progress behind the scenes, but it's hardly a tidal wave, and I'd agree with Paul that the overly-complex syntax is the biggest barrier. The schema spec is nice and simple, though. > The syntax is brutally complex because it reintroduces minimization > hacks like the ones XML took out of SGML. Yes, that is very unfortunate. > Without the minimization hacks, the syntax is verbose and hard to > read. That's inevitable for any kind of object exchange, though -- it's the nature of the normalized object-oriented information. Here's some mostly non-minimized RDF (using only the rdf:type as class name): <foo:Person rdf:about="http://www.foo.com/ids/3645"> <dc:title>Paul Prescod</dc:title> <foo:email>paul@p...</foo:email> <foo:employer rdf:resource="http://www.foo.com/ids/0739"/> </foo:Person> <foo:Organization rdf:about="http://www.foo.com/ids/0739"> <dc:title>ISOGEN</dc:title> <foo:parent-org rdf:resource="http://www.foo.com/ids/2957"/> </foo:Organization> <foo:Organization rdf:about="http://www.foo.com/ids/2957"> <dc:title>DataChannel</dc:title> <foo:Organization> It's a little verbose, but it does keep the data properly normalized and uniquely identified. The XMI for this might be a little less readable, I'd think. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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