- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:30:25 -0500
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Sandy Pan wrote: > ... Semantic Web is actually fully based on RDF No, it is not, although RDF may eventually turn out to be the primary way Semantic Web data gets represented (or perhaps not ... it remains to be seen). > , and RDF is mainly XML codes. No, it is not. The XML serialization of RDF is mainly used for interchanging collections of RDF statements, but the "RDF"-ness is in the set of statements, not in the XML. In other words, RDF is basically a data model with a few rules, and - soon to become a full Recommendation, no doubt - a model theory to guide understanding of those statements. Furthermore, a great deal of whatever the Semantic Web may become will happen in layers on top of RDF (or whatever), of which OWL would be one. OWL, too, is not about the XML but about the statements and rules it provides a framework for. Cheers, Tom P
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