- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:13:57 +0200
- To: Howard Katz <howardk@fatdog.com>
- CC: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Howard Katz wrote:
> So in short (if I may): in XML the typing is built-in; the relationships are
> implied. In RDF, the typing might or might be present, and the relationships
> are (generally) explicit.
Here's a different point of view: XML Schema seems to suggest that XML
element names are property names, not type names. The same element name
can be used with different types in different places, and you can even
do the following, assuming the "publication" element has been defined to
be of type Publication (which has several subclasses):
<publication xsi:type="Article">
...
</publication>
<publication xsi:type="Book">
...
</publication>
In practice, I suspect element names are chosen to represent either
types or properties, whatever seems most fitting to the author in each
individual case...
Received on Friday, 17 September 2004 08:13:23 UTC