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- From: "Hunter, David" <dhunter@Mobility.com>
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:26:26 -0500
From: David Megginson [mailto:david@megginson.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 12:46 AM
>
> <acme:Person rdf:about="http://www.acme.com/ids/0001">
> <acme:name>Jane Smith</acme:name>
> <acme:birth-date>1970-11-17</acme:birth-date>
> <acme:nationality>US</acme:nationality>
> <acme:father rdf:resource="http://www.acme.com/ids/0002"/>
> <acme:mother rdf:resource="http://www.acme.com/ids/0002"/>
> </acme:Person>
Okay, this is where my brain just stops, and I expect the flash of light
which never comes. We have this RDF serialization, and we have one from <I
think>Mark</I think>, like this:
> <Person ID="3">
> <url>http://www.acme.com/ids/0001</url>
> <name>Jane Smith</name>
> <birth-date>1970-11-17</birth-date>
> <nationality>US</nationality>
> <father IDREF="1" />
> <mother IDREF="2"/>
> </Person>
What I don't understand is what RDF buys us wrt object serialization. I
love object serialization; I've worked on highly complex applications, which
used complex object models that serialized to XML. But I don't get what RDF
adds to the picture.
Can someone provide the flash of light? Even a flick of the bic would help
me here... :-)
David Hunter
david.hunter@mobileq.com
http://www.MobileQ.com
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