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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: "'xml-dev@ic.ac.uk'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:40:37 -0800
At 12:22 PM 12/1/99 -0800, Ron Daniel wrote:
>and here is my attempt to give an example of why RDF
>is useful:
Very good, Ron. Well said.
And here is my attempt to explain why RDF hasn't been more successful:
The syntax is hideously ugly and hard to understand, and the spec worries
so hard about being correct and complete that it is pretty well 100%
incomprehensible to ordinary people.
I probably just hurt some feelings, but I've already shouted this in private
enough times that it won't be a surprise.
In my opinion RDF needs some serious sugar-coating and tutorializing
if it is ever going to achieve its potential.
I think its potential is huge, dwarfing that of XML. -Tim
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