- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 20:36:26 -0600
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> > > Why is rdf:about treated as magic syntax? Wouldn't everything work > > > the same in the grammar if > > > http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#about were just another > > > property? > > > > I now I'm pursuing a cheap form of argument here, but I can't resist likening > > your statement to the old saw: why treat angle brackets as magic syntax? Why > > not allow the markup language to define the tag delimiters ... > > Um, nice try, but languages need magic syntax for separating literal > text from structure. RDF/XML doesn't need to give rdf:about any magic > status; doing so is just a sometimes-convenient way of thinkings about > things. I don't think I have any idea what you're talking about. I'll bow out of this thread unless I get worried that the ideas herein might actually affect me in any way. -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com +1 720 320 2046 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA XML strategy, XML tools (http://4Suite.org), knowledge management Track chair, XML/Web Services One (San Jose, Boston): http://www.xmlconference.com/ Latest article: Managing structured Web service metadata - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-wsdlrdf/ Next presentation: XML, The Model Driven Architecture, and RDF @ XML Europe - http://www.xmleurope.com/2002/kttrack.asp#themodel
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