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   RE: [xml-dev] RDF Interpretation of XML documents (was Re: [xml-d

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If I understand TimBL's article, it isn't so much 
that XML is inconsistent, documents written for human 
consumption order the presentation of ideas.  To 
RDF and most machines, that order isn't significant; 
a clean graph is.  The human acquires concepts in 
the order they read them (and BTW, iaw their 
emotional response to them, and that is often 
lost in pure logic systems).  So XML as Simon 
says, has to be able to work for the human where 
order is important.  RDF has to work for the 
predicate logic processor.  XML is consistent 
in its own definitions of syntax, structure 
and optional namespaces, but it has to be able 
to express constructs that are ambiguous because 
a human can handle those (the handler is 
paralogical).

Again, the win-win seems to be to stripe the 
XML with RDF constructs.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:mbatsis@humanmarkup.org]

No problem. Well, the main difference is that RDF is consistent while 
XML is not. 




 

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