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Manos Batsis writes: > RDF has a simple but strict model, meaning the way it's XML is > de-serialized into triples to form the RDF graph. That's what makes > RDF processors able of dealing with any RDF. Vanilla XML on the other > hand is unpredictable in structure (as well as the actual meaning of > that structure) and levels of depth - from the RDF point of view, XML > is ugly, low level and meaningless. Heh. From my markup-centric perspective, RDF is ugly, high-level, and excessively charged with meaning encoded so abstractly as to be nearly cryptographic. Oh, and it's painfully constraining since it can't figure out how to deal with mixed content, a common human construct. Just couldn't resist... ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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