- From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 01:20:17 +0300 (EEST)
- To: <MDaconta@aol.com>
- cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 MDaconta@aol.com wrote: >I must be missing something. We talk about "plug in" vocabularies -- I >assume via RDFS. So what is the difference between needing to know 1000 >RDFS vocabularies to do anything useful and knowing 1000 XML Schema >vocabularies? The point is, middleware apps (like syndiaction) do not need to know much. However, they do need to be able to deal with data in a unified fashion, and perhaps understand the data just as far as it takes to filter it. RDF facilitates that, XSchema doesn't. >I would love to see a sample program that does something useful without >knowing a vocabulary beyond what RDF provides. How about the fairly simple N3 ruleset which filters anything except RSS out of a stream of RDF? Highly useful, if a syndication client wants RSS only. Considerably more difficult to implement in an environment where all we see are (arbitrarily mixed, via Namespaces) XSchemas. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
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