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On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 15:35, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> Just for the sake of repeating them:
> ---------------------------------------
> 1. XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the Internet.
> 2. XML shall support a wide variety of applications.
> 3. XML shall be compatible with SGML.
> 4. It shall be easy to write programs which process XML documents.
> 5. The number of optional features in XML is to be kept to the
> absolute minimum, ideally zero.
> 6. XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably clear.
> 7. The XML design should be prepared quickly.
> 8. The design of XML shall be formal and concise.
> 9. XML documents shall be easy to create.
> 10. Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance.
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>
> None of those suggest to me that the XML WG set out to produce, for
> instance, RDF.
It depends what you are doing with RDF and I would argue that:
<book rdf:about="http://my.library/book/0836217462";>
<isbn>0836217462</isbn>
<title>Being a Dog Is a Full-Time Job</title>
<author
rdf:resource="http://my.library/author/Charles-M.-Schulz"/>
<character
rdf:resource="http://my.library/character/Peppermint-Patty"/>
<character
rdf:resource="http://my.library/character/Charlie-Brown"/>
<character rdf:resource="http://my.library/character/Snoopy"/>
<character
rdf:resource="http://my.library/character/Schroeder"/>
<character rdf:resource="http://my.library/character/Lucy"/>
</book>
is not more complex than a XML counterpart such as:
<book id="book_0805033106">
<isbn>0805033106</isbn>
<title>Peanuts Every Sunday </title>
<author href="author_Charles-M.-Schulz"/>
<character href="character_Sally-Brown"/>
<character href="character_Snoopy"/>
<character href="character_Linus"/>
<character href="character_Lucy"/>
</book>
(examples from http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/10/04/linking/index.html)
The fact that a language allows to write readable documents doesn't mean
that any document using this language will be readable :-) and some
years ago I used to say that one can write a readable and modular
program in assembly language or an unreadable and non modular one in
Pascal...
Eric
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