- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:14:20 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <doug@schepers.cc>, www-archive@w3.org
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Danny Ayers wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:21:26 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > > > Let's let RDF and other ontological XML dialects do their job of > > > providing rich semantics > > > > RDF, at least in its current state, has had basically zero uptake in > > the real world. RSS is the closest thing to a success that RDF has > > had, and no RSS viewers are implemented in terms of RSS. In fact, most > > RSS feeds aren't even well-formed XML. RSS has, in that sense, been as > > (un)successful as XHTML1. > > I beg to differ. There is uptake of RDF (and OWL) in the real world. > It's not huge, but is growing (the same could probably be said about SVG > and MathML). I haven't seen that uptake. But I'll take your word for it. > There are several RSS viewers implemented in terms of RDF. Several RSS > applications actually rely on the richness offered by RDF over plain-XML > RSS. Well, that's encouraging. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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