- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 11:09:00 -0800
- To: "WWW TAG" <www-tag@w3.org>
At 10:48 PM 27/02/02 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >This is, of course, much more sound. I understand some folks prefer the >XLINK version, and I don't like to push RDF as Director, but RDF is >appropriate >here, and I hate to think of leaving a legacy of litle RDDL1 > RDDL/RDF >converters >distributed thoughout the data processing world. Are you arguing in favor of a RDF document, or an XHTML document with embedded assertions in the style of RDDL? I think having the top-level document be XHTML is a Very Good Thing, because it allows a human to point any old generic browser at a namespace name and thereby learn something, without requiring any other software. If we could agree on the namespace document being by default human-readable, I think we could then have a reasonable debate on RDF or XLink for directory purposes. Whereas I lean to Xlink, it's hard to imagine the debate being too fierce since the information packages nicely in either syntax. -Tim
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