- From: Sankar Virdhagriswaran <sv@crystaliz.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:45:40 -0500
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
To throw some cold water on all this .... > RDF is a modelling formalism targetted at describing classes of > 'resources', where resources (roughly) are things that might > be identified with URIs, ie. everything. Again, RDF isn't alone in > this - lots of other XML applications describe stuff. Hmmm...I wonder what happens in cases where these said resources are XML-Schema documents which use XML-Schema to represent their properties and properties about themselves. Yes, organized way of representing meta-data when the underlying data is not well marked up (e.g., HTML documents) is a useful activity. One could argue that RDF was invented for just this purpose. However, why can't I provide the same description (perhaps in a less flexible or powerful way) using XLink and XML-Schema based documents that describe the not well marked up data. IMHO, there is a trade off to be made here by developers and the Cambridge communiqué really does not identify the issues in that trade off analysis and address it head on.
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