- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:42:33 +0100
- To: "Richard Cyganiak" <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: "Tom Heath" <Tom.Heath@talis.com>, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org
Hi Richard, > For these reasons I have always viewed RDF/XML as 'scaffolding' that > holds triples which can be about *anything* you like...anything, that > is, except itself. :) Sorry...mis-typed, as Hillary might say. Obviously RDF can talk about RDF. :) What I mean (which is hopefully clear in the rest of the other email), is that an RDF/XML document can't hold triples about itself, since an RDF/XML document is 'scaffolding' that 'dissolves' the moment you interpret it, leaving you only the triples. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birbeck@webBackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)
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