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Re: RDDL possibilities

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: RDDL possibilities
• From: Kal Ahmed <kal@t...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:28:14 +0000
• Cc: jborden@m...
• In-reply-to: <1011279027.16636.2.camel@l...>

Both of these are interesting directions to take RDDL in.

At 09:49 17/01/2002 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>If one is willing to accept that there may possibly be value in having
>mixed human/machine-readable content at the end of a namespace-URI, RDDL
>looks like a pretty good tool.
>
>There was some discussion at XML 2001 about ways to improve RDDL, and
>they seemed to come from two related directions:
>
>1) Creating clusters of resources rather than a flat list

This is very interesting - would these resources be clustered around 
something (the name-space as an abstract concept, for example).
IMHO, this is eminently do-able with Topic Maps...

>2) Describing sequences for resource processing to define pipelines

Equally do-able with topic maps.


>In some ways these are the same thing, just with sequence mattering in
>the second version.
>
>I think it's roughly possible to do these using current RDDL syntax, but
>I suspect it might be worth some further exploration of how best to make
>these work.  Number 2 in particular could take RDDL much deeper into
>computer interactions than has typically been the case so far.
>
>Thoughts?

I would just be interested to hear if RDDL developers considered and 
discarded the possibility of creating a set of Published Subject Indicators 
for a topic map-based solution (with the associated semantics) and if so, 
why ? One potential advantage in this approach is that later changes would 
not require additional syntax - just new PSIs and more semantics.

Cheers,

Kal

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