- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:01:20 +0000
- To: DAWG Mailing List <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:11:17 -0500, Bijan Parsia wrote: > 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. No problem, I'm not easily offended :) My mail was mostly just whimisical post-cofee, pre-work rambling. The real point was that any XML serialisation should be close to the parse grammar. I can see the use of an XML serialisation, but validation is not a significat gain IMHO. - Steve
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