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RE: XML/RDF

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• Subject: RE: XML/RDF
• From: Bob DuCharme <bobdc@s...>
• Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 21:29:13 -0500
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At 11/4/02 07:00 PM, Simon St. Laurent wrote:
 >"Eschew mixed content" seemed the most ridiculous (and memorable) at the
 >time, and I'd been having particular annoyances with general failures to
 >appreciate mixed content at that point.  (Both W3C XML Schema and RELAX
 >NG seem to treat it as a special case rather than as something quite
 >normal, though RELAX NG is less extreme in that.)

I think many people appreciate mixed content for its expressive power, but 
find it a pain to process, and so find advantages in avoiding the 
processing of it where possible. With all the additional constraints of 
RDF-conformant XML, it's even less expressive, and often even easier to 
process, so it's well-suited to certain applications.

Especially metadata. I still find it a little ironic that while RDF has 
gotten so much publicity as a technology for warm and fuzzy AI 
pie-in-the-sky technology, it's gotten most of its traction in the mundane 
world of metadata. Try searching oclc.org (The Online Computer Library 
Center--"Helping libraries serve people") for "RDF". When searching from 
their home page, the first 15 or so hits all go to the same RDF/Topic Map 
integration project, but many hits after that go to all kinds of different 
work going on there. And for successful use of RDF in metadata, there's 
always Mozilla...

Bob DuCharme          www.snee.com/bob           <bob@
snee.com>  "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy
spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii
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