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That leaves those of us trying to work today having to choose among tools and potential local non-optimized minima. In other words, despite best efforts, our designs are weakened by hot spots in the metal where the annealing doesn't quite take. I'm reading http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/rdf.html and it leads me to believe topic maps are more flexible if one wants to stick with one tool throughout. So far, it is easier for me to see how topic maps are created if one needs to create an abstract description that is then populated with instances rather than starting from resources. Hard stuff. So the W3C expects web page builders to do this? Hype can lead to terrible depressions. See AI. ;-) Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...] Unfortunately, I think we're stuck in a crease here. UML is not expressive enough to model whatever we'd want to in XML/RDF/TM, etc., but it does have mature tools and strong adoption. XML Schemas, RDF and TM are, at the low-level, what we want, but I quite understand that not too many people would want to do all their modeling directly in these tools the way things now stand. (People such as Jonathan and I are exceptions, and probably weird). So understandably you ask whether one should just use UML and therefrom generate the appropriate low-level formats. I point out that UML is not expressive enough, that mechanical conversion from UML in any case would tend to poor results, and that hands-on conversion would be as much effort as just doing the modeling in the low-level formats to begin with. I don't think there's any good answer to this quandry right now. The tools still need evolving. Luckily, I think that despite the excessive hype, the Web services movement might be exactly what is needed to push the evolution of tools along.
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