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As an RDF user, I agree with all comments about the complexity of its syntax and the specification itself. I spent about a month reading and rereading the RDF spec before I concluded it really was as conceptually simple as it had appeared on first reading. On the subject of its potential, I partly agree and partly disagree. Yes, RDF does move things up the semantic food chain. Yes, XML is kind of like a good orthogonal machine instruction set, which needs 3G, 4G, and 5G languages on top of it. But I still see RDF as being useful for metadata, not for every kind of object-oriented conversation you'd want to have. I wouldn't consider RDF at the same level as CORBA, but perhaps part of an overall solution. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xml-dev@i... > [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of > Tim Bray > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 12:41 PM > To: 'xml-dev@i...' > Subject: RE: Some questions > > > At 12:22 PM 12/1/99 -0800, Ron Daniel wrote: > >and here is my attempt to give an example of why RDF > >is useful: > > Very good, Ron. Well said. > > And here is my attempt to explain why RDF hasn't been more successful: > > The syntax is hideously ugly and hard to understand, and > the spec worries > so hard about being correct and complete that it is pretty well 100% > incomprehensible to ordinary people. > > I probably just hurt some feelings, but I've already shouted > this in private > enough times that it won't be a surprise. > > In my opinion RDF needs some serious sugar-coating and tutorializing > if it is ever going to achieve its potential. > > I think its potential is huge, dwarfing that of XML. -Tim > > > 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...) > > 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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