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Re: Why RDF is hard

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: Why RDF is hard
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:56:39 -0800
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Rick Jelliffe wrote:

> From: "Paul Prescod"
>
> >I'm not convinced (yet?) that the world divides in to these neat
> >categories. Do you see this as tricky:
>
>
> Yes, if my data is in XML.


Simon said that the concepts were difficult so I presented the concepts 
in a simpler syntax to see if he still felt that was true.

> Another approach to the whole thing might be to use XPaths to 
> explicitly mark relations up.
> (These could be defaulted in the DTD.)

I agree that using XPaths is probably a good idea if you're trying to 
deal with the syntax issues rather than the concepts. (but most RDF 
documents don't have DTDs, so that's not where I would put the XPaths)

  Paul Prescod

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  • Re: Why RDF is hard
    • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
  • Re: Why RDF is hard
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>

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