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>> [Dan Brickley] >> > >> >What goes around comes around! The RDF Interest Group [1] is currently >> >discussing alternate syntaxes for RDF in XML. Sounds like we're being >> >told we'd be better off returning to PICS-NGesque s-expressions. >> [Sean McGrath] >> Not so AFAIK. I would be interested to read the XML-DEV posts that >> have lead you to this conclusion. Can you point me at them? > > [Dan Brickley] >I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek, but the combination of Paul >Prescod's msg (which I replied to) and previous SML advocacy seemed to >be heading in this direction. In other words, that for many >data-oriented applications, XML's document-oriented heritage makes it >sometimes challenging to use. I'm far from convinced that a return to >s-expressions, or the creation of a trivial subset (SML), would be >useful right now. OK. I see where you are coming from. My position is this:- 1) SML must be allowed to be born so that it can either die of natural causes or flourish. 2) SML must be a subset (application profile) of XML. 3) To quote Henry Thompson (I think) "We should stop worrying and learn to love xLink". By which I mean, a lot of the thunkery that goes on with entities, notations, PIs etc. might disappear in a puff of logic if only we had xLink. The combination of SML with a rich object linking mechanism is and idea that I feel deserves its 15 minutes of flame:-) regards, <Sean uri="http://www.digitome.com/sean.html"> Developers Day co-Chair WWW9, April 2000, Amsterdam <uri>http://www.www9.org</uri> </Sean> 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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