Re: Can RDF thrive in an XML-centric world? from Jeremy Carroll on 2002-11-04 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from November 2002)

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 07:56:58 +0000
To: Bob MacGregor <macgregor@ISI.EDU>
CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Message-ID: <3DC6284A.4060102@hpl.hp.com>

(flame bait?)

Bob MacGregor wrote:

> IMHO the RDF world should be learning how to
> accomodate the XML world, not the other way around.  The core good ideas in
> RDF are URI's and triples (while current RDF syntax is a huge liability).

Yes, RDF/XML is inexcusably bad and should go.
The rest of RDF is seriously held back because of the XML serialization.

Jeremy

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