RE: .rdf extension on non-RDF CVS log files?

Thanks. Do you know if Resource Description Framework plays any role in the
CVS log files, or did the people doing those, like the ReDIF folk, pick an
extension of "rdf" for some unrelated reason? 

Bob

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[mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Dan Brickley
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:49 AM
To: DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)
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Subject: Re: .rdf extension on non-RDF CVS log files?


* DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) <bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com> [2004-11-29
11:32-0500]
> In my search for RDF files, I've been finding a lot of things like
this[1].
> A View Source shows that they're HTML, typically with a giant pre 
> element listing files in them. Is the use of the .rdf file extension 
> for these some convention unrelated to Resource Description Framework, 
> like the use of the same extension on ReDIF[2] files?

Yep, the ReDIF guys have an attribute/value metadata format in the IAFA
Templates tradition, and have been using .rdf as a suffix for some time.

Dan

> thanks,
>  
> Bob DuCharme   www.snee.com/bob <http://www.snee.com/bob>        <bob@  
> snee.com> weblog on linking-related topics: 
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1191
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1191>
>  
> [1]
> http://cvs2.oeone.com/index.cgi/penzilla3/apps/appliancemanagement/con
> tent/c
> ontents.rdf
> <http://cvs2.oeone.com/index.cgi/penzilla3/apps/appliancemanagement/co
> ntent/
> contents.rdf>
> [2] http://ideas.repec.org/p/rpc/rdfdoc/redif.html
> <http://ideas.repec.org/p/rpc/rdfdoc/redif.html>

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