- From: Jim Amsden <jamsden@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:40:27 -0400
- To: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
I volunteered to come up with a DTD for the history property. I will look at RDF, and if it seems like a convenient way to express what we want, we should consider using it, even if we don't advertise it as being RDF compliant. In other words, there's no reason to invent something new for its own sake. On the other hand, it is not clear that RDF adds a lot either. Sometimes using a generic mechanism for meta-data obscures the instance you're trying to capture and just adds complexity. This isn't the spirit of XML where one is supposed to be able to define document types that closely correspond to the application being modeled. w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org on 10/05/98 08:38:34 PM Please respond to w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org cc: Subject: RDF for versioning At the versioning design team meeting last week, Jim asked if we wanted to express the revision history (version graph) in RDF; it's a natural format for it, but there was concern that we might be tying ourselves to a doomed non-standard--a few people expressed the opinion that RDF seemed to be dying on the vine, ignored by the W3C and abandoned by Netscape. We agreed to come up with a more specific format; I don't want to reopen that discussion, but I just wanted to let everybody know that I talked to Ramanathan Guha (Mr. RDF), and he says it's going to Last Call in a couple of weeks. (Mind you, I don't know enough about the W3C to know whether that's a comparable state to the IETF's Last Call.) -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. |"And bring the search warrant." | |francis@netscape.com |"You mean the sledgehammer, sir?" "Yes." | \====================================================================/
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