Re: Chicken/egg and the "meanwhile problem"

> >Do you want me to proceed and write an RDF Schema for it?
> Write away!

Er...I predicted what you would say and wrote one (actually, I got bored and
wrote one!). What do you think of it (assuming you just got it)?

> Remember that "right away" is more important than being "way
> right".

Well, if right away is before you even ask me to do it...seriously it's
always nice to be doing something of value.

> I notice that rdf-interest (don't know about the *real* rdf group

That is the real group. RDF is A Recomendation, and RDF Schema is close. RDF
IG is just abou the only general RDF forum there is right now!

> Unless there's a genuine *fatal flaw* in having a separate profile
> resource, I can't see why we need to wait much.

No flaw, it's just a bit hacky for now (I was about to send this to RDF
IG):-
Maybe it was a bit naive of me to suggest XHTML can be used as an RDF
language...it looks as though RDF/XML are for data, and XHTML is for
documents/language. If someone wants to work on the rather fuzzy area
between documents and data, then great, but it's quite hard.
Approaches:
1. Add RDF to XHTML
2. Link to RDF from XHTML
3. Use XHTML as RDF
4. Transform XHTML into RDF
1 doesn't work because it won't validate (yet!), 2 doesn't work because
XLink isn't supported yet, 3 works to a very small extent, but with emphasis
on the "small", and 4 is a hack for now because it uses "classes", but at
least it works:
http://www.w3.org/2000/06/webdata/xslt?xslfile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FPeo
ple%2FConnolly%2Fsmart-home.xsl&xmlfile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FPeople%2FC
onnolly%2F
Tough call on what is the best approach...altohugh I would suggest a
combination of 3 & 4 for now.

Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
http://xhtml.waptechinfo.com/swr/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
"Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics."
   - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.

Received on Saturday, 25 November 2000 16:26:40 UTC