- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:31:37 +0000
- To: Benja Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@gmx.de>
- Cc: Andrew Newman <andrew@pisoftware.com>, RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Benja Fallenstein wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeremy Carroll wrote: > | I think neither of us are particularly convinced that RDF should be > | being entered by hand, without editor support. > > While editors are a great thing, and I'm working on one =), I'd say it's > almost a truism that it's important that they are not *required*. Being > able to delve in, fire up emacs and write up statements is for some > reason in some situations still the way to go; an example that comes to > mind is fixing some problem with some graph through a console ssh session. > > See also how many people are entering HTML by hand, even though it's > much easier to do with a decent graphical editor. > Yes but ... Fixing something in emacs is one thing, using emacs as your principle editor is another ... Hmmm perhaps I should stop digging. TriX by having a clear and simple mapping onto the graph is suited for editing of data, if not for data input itself. Jeremy
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