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Paul Prescod writes:
> That statement is false. Whether you think it succeeded or failed, RDF
> *was* designed with human-readability in mind. A reading of the RDF
> specification will make that clear.
>
> "rdf additionally provides a means for publishing both
> human-readable and machine-processable vocabularies designed to
> encourage the reuse and extension of metadata semantics among
> disparate information communities."
>
> "Highly condensed expressions such as this are discouraged, however,
> when the RDF/XML encoding is written by hand or expected to be edited
> in a plain text editor"
Then I have to ask "which humans"?
XML seems aimed at a much larger group, to say the least.
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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
http://simonstl.com may be my URI
http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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