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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: RDF for unstructured databases, RDF for axiomatic systems
 > Also, have you submitted it to the RDF working group? I would think > that they would listen to you. If it tests out and works, I would > think that they would see about including it in the spec with this > release. I've always found them to be quite responsive, and I Actually, the WG have come up with a number of alternative XML serializations themselves, so I am not sure how interested they are in yet another. In fact, the current RDF core charter [0] says, right in the first paragraph, "There is also considerable interest in the exploration of alternative XML serialization mechanisms for RDF data. The role of the RDF Core WG is to prepare the way for such work by stabilizing the core RDF specifications." The current syntax is incapable of representing all possible RDF models, and the implicit charter of the working group seems to be to obsolete the current syntax as quickly as possible. As your e-mail points out, though, the value of RDF is not necessarily the syntax, but instead is the model. The RDF-MT [1] details a model which can be used for interop completely independent of syntax, and IMO the work that went into thinking through and specifying all of the issues in an abstract way will help future syntax efforts more than anything else. (I also happen to think that the XQuery Data Model [2] is a masterpiece of simplification that has really helped XQuery, so you see where my biases lie...) [0] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCoreWGCharter [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-mt-20020429/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/query-datamodel/ 
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