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That seems harsh, lads. The article only claims to show how one can use the two technologies together should one want to do so. If metadata is as important as some seem to suggest, then it doesn't appear to me that they are preventing people from using their technologies. They are exposing some weaknesses and deliberately, IMO. For example, the loosy goosy way that IDs were applied prior to DTDs in web markup is a known problem. So RDF it or give it the proper type in a DTD. Since the topic is RDF-friendly, the technique is fine but again, it demonstrates that pure XML-well-formed-only systems have this hole among others. The container striping is weird. On the other hand, RDF is not XML and this is one of those impedance mismatches. It's good to see it exposed. The about attributes are just RDF type system declaration semantics being hoisted over to XML that doesn't have them. It doesn't leave me cold, but I am not a fan of URI usage given that the W3C has never been able to close that work item, but rather, keeps layering more goo onto the top of the cake. As to use of other ontologies, this looks like good advice but is politically problematic. It depends on the source of the ontology. It is a fact of life that not every agency wishes to reuse the definitions of another agency. Anyone who thinks the advent of the web put away the politics of NIH isn't thinking clearly. Learning from the work of others is usually acceptable. Enabling them to rule the namespaces of another agency's documents seldom is. Namespaces, even where technically workable, will always present a political obstacle. len -----Original Message----- From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...] Articles like this go a long way towards convincing me that the RDF folks are very determined to prevent people from actually using their technology or the Semantic Web. ;) From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] If people thought that XLink was an intrusive technology, I'm not sure what they'll make of the RDF-friendly XML described at: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/rdf-friendly.html
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