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Re: patterns vs. identifiers

• To: vdv@d... (Eric van der Vlist)
• Subject: Re: patterns vs. identifiers
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:31:47 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1029851174.4852.52.camel@ibook> from "Eric van der Vlist" at Aug 20, 2002 03:46:14 PM

Eric van der Vlist scripsit:

>    <book id="book_0805033106">
>         <isbn>0805033106</isbn>
>         <title>Peanuts Every Sunday </title>
>         <author href="author_Charles-M.-Schulz"/>
>         <character href="character_Sally-Brown"/>
>         <character href="character_Snoopy"/>
>         <character href="character_Linus"/>
>         <character href="character_Lucy"/>
>     </book>

If you change the id attribute to rdf:id, then this is also RDF.
Unless it contains mixed content, almost any reasonable XML document
has an RDF interpretation.

> I used to say that one can write a readable and modular
> program in assembly language or an unreadable and non modular one in
> Pascal...

"Real FORTRAN programmers can program FORTRAN in any language." --Allen Brown

-- 
John Cowan   <jcowan@r...>   http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
"One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big
thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script.  One of the geologists
came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too.
Try hanging up and phoning in again.'"  --Beverly Erlebacher

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