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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: "'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Oct 1999 07:09:55 -0500
"Jeffrey E. Sussna" <jes@kuantech.com> writes:
> I think the important thing to remember about RDF is that it is not XML. It
> is fundamentally an abstract model for expressing metadata. It happens to be
> representable using XML, but it is different from XML. Unfortunately, this
> distinction is part of what makes the spec hard to read, but it's important.
That's a good point, and it's important to remember that it applies to
almost *everything* that can be represented in XML. Even traditional
document types like HTML or DocBook really have their own model (hence
the HTML DOM).
All the best,
David
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