- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:20:35 -0500 (EST)
- To: Mark <mreitman@mindspring.com>
- cc: xml-dev@xml.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> My suggestion is that you ASK THE USER before rewritting it or killing it. [...] > I'm starting the "Save the RDF" movement. Things seem to have got a little alarmist! Nobody is talking about rewriting or killing it. The concerns centre around how closely RDF is associated with one particular RDF interchange syntax, namely the XML-based format described alongside the RDF model in the Model and Syntax Recommendation. RDFists have generally anticipated multiple syntaxes, or (equivalently?) software architectures that extract RDF data structures from a wide variety of concrete representations. Nobody is considering a rewrite of the model, but there is widespread concern that the current syntax is sub-optimal, and holding back progress with RDF generally. That's all. RDF apps written today can be coded to distinguish between model and syntax and therefore be futureproofed w.r.t. such developments, but since there's currently only one widely understood syntax for RDF people feel there's a gap that could be filled relatively easily. --dan
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