- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:13:32 -0700
- To: rdf <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Aaron Swartz wrote: > Seth Russell has been working on something like this (I've CC-ed him so he > can comment) where he says that any XML document can be easily turned into > RDF by stating which elements are the nodes of the document, and assuming > the rest are arrows. The reason I'm not too fond of this is because it does > not work in every situation, and thus requires intelligence and forethought > on the part of the document designers. I'm making this proposal so that we > can use a legacy format (RSS), not designed to be used like that, also as an > RDF format. My conjecture is that if there is semantic content in a XML document, then there exists a way to annotate it such that it can be unambiguously transformed into a well formed *generalization* of the RDF data model. If the original document does not contain any semantic content then we would have a GIGO thing. Also note that this would be a generalization of the RDF data model. There is no mandate in XML to only talk about internet resources that can be assigned a URI, so any random XML may not be translatable into the more restrained RDF. -- Seth Russell http://RobustAI.net/MyNetwork/index.html http://robustAI.net/MyNetwork/StickeyCyberMolecules.html Http://RobustAi.net/Ai/Conjecture.htm
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