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 grimlinda@e... (Linda Grimaldi) writes: >Levels of communication make the world go 'round- XML is one level, >ontologies another. Where you don't need semantic consensus, don't >bother. Where you need the agreement (and can get it) do so, and allow >some flexibility to accommodate levels of variance and evolution. >This is the advantage of RDF over CORBA and other strict object >models- just because I use the word "class" and borrow some useful >constructs now and again does not necessarily make me an object >zealot. I'm just acknowledging that the concepts do come in handy for >a certain class (no pun intended :>)) of problems. Except that I get fed up with ontologists who keep coming round and asking why we bother with this mere syntactical stuff, and explaining it gets more than a little irksome. Maybe they're just trolls, maybe they genuinely believe that syntax isn't interesting, but damn they're annoying. When I most need agreement, I can't get it, and I certainly can't get it usefully documented. When I don't need agreement, it comes pretty easily. Workarounds are the best part of XML, as the syntax keeps them possible. >We have the benefit of many available tools, built around the same >syntactic structure. Use the ones that do you good and throw out the >rest- until the next problem, when you just might need them. I throw out most of them, all of the time. Works fine for me. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org 
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