- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:35:11 -0000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
- Cc: sodipodi-list@lists.sourceforge.net
"Bernhard Zwischenbrugger" <bz@datenkueche.com> wrote in message news:1074101398.40057c96d8fc8@webmail.datenkueche.com... >Quoting Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>: > >> Bernhard Zwischenbrugger: >> > I want to describe the world in XML. >> > Something like a computer readable www. >> >> RDF is the way of a computer readable www. >I don't understand RDF. >It always look like: ><nothingspezial:container xmlns:nothingspezial="http://zerocontent"> ><othernamespace:thecontent xmlns:othernamespace="http://meaningfullthing"/> ></nothingspezial:container> Which is fine, XML is really completely useless without namespaces... >Sometimes the "rdf:resource" attribute is used but why not use xlink? because they mean completely different things. >http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf for example does not use rdf:resource... That's an RSS resource. FOAF files are a much more reasonable popular application of RDF to look at. I think DAML have country data in there CIA factbook scrape: http://www.daml.org/2001/12/factbook/uk is data on the UK http://www.daml.org/2001/12/factbook/factbook-ont# in fact already includes information on flags, you can just use this namespace. Jim.
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