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RE: RDF was a bully (was Re: RDF and the new release

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• Subject: RE: RDF was a bully (was Re: RDF and the new releases)
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:16:53 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <02f501c28ce0$45132240$33a1dc40@murphy>

>What I meant of course is that RSS 0.90 was in no way a foundation for all
>the dreams people have for RDF. It's basically an XML format, and
>not a very
>widely supported one. Don't be confused. Dave

I agree that RSS 0.90 is in no way the foundation for all the dreams people
have for RDF. It is an XML format, based on the XML serialization of RDF. It
is supported by a considerable proportion of the tools in that domain -
aggregators, readers etc, though few of those (if any) take advantage of its
RDF nature. It is however also supported by virtually every RDF tool there
is, and anyone that has looked into it will realise that is saying a *lot*
more than saying, for example, that an XML format is supported by XML tools.

It was and is RDF compliant. It is RDF. I don't find that confusing.

Cheers,
Danny.

>> >0.90 was not in any way RDF-compliant.
>>
>> !
>>
>> see the cached version of Netscape's RSS) 0.9 spec:
>> http://www.purplepages.ie/RSS/netscape/rss0.90.html
>>
>>
>> If you still have any doubts, try copying the sample into the W3C RDF
>> validator:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/
>>
>> Lovely graph!
>> Lovely triples!
>> Valid RDF!
>>
>> A certain amount of FUD is to be expected from vendors that have staked
>> their reputation (and probably their dollars) on a different horse, but
>this
>> is remarkable. On xml-dev. I'm speechless.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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