Re: XML serialization of SPARQL

On Mar 16, 2005, at 7:51 AM, Bijan Parsia wrote:
[snip]
>  That's in essence the argument from WSDL...web services at the W3C 
> (and elsewhere largely) are *xml* web services. You look like a dork 
> selling something else; unprofessional. Plus, you *are* being a bit of 
> a dork, since the overhead of the retooling you require makes 
> accepting our somewhat out of mainstream technology that much more 
> expensive for many people.
[snip]

I realized afterwards that this passage can look *way* more personal, 
snarky, and insulting than I intended for it to be.  I was more trying 
to convey my own experience of being in a situation where the technical 
choices I was explaining and implicitly advocating were deemed dead on 
arrival and realizing that those rejectors had pretty good reasons for 
reacting that way. I apologize for the infelicitous expression.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.

Received on Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:11:16 UTC