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At 11/4/02 07:00 PM, Simon St. Laurent wrote:
>"Eschew mixed content" seemed the most ridiculous (and memorable) at the
>time, and I'd been having particular annoyances with general failures to
>appreciate mixed content at that point. (Both W3C XML Schema and RELAX
>NG seem to treat it as a special case rather than as something quite
>normal, though RELAX NG is less extreme in that.)
I think many people appreciate mixed content for its expressive power, but
find it a pain to process, and so find advantages in avoiding the
processing of it where possible. With all the additional constraints of
RDF-conformant XML, it's even less expressive, and often even easier to
process, so it's well-suited to certain applications.
Especially metadata. I still find it a little ironic that while RDF has
gotten so much publicity as a technology for warm and fuzzy AI
pie-in-the-sky technology, it's gotten most of its traction in the mundane
world of metadata. Try searching oclc.org (The Online Computer Library
Center--"Helping libraries serve people") for "RDF". When searching from
their home page, the first 15 or so hits all go to the same RDF/Topic Map
integration project, but many hits after that go to all kinds of different
work going on there. And for successful use of RDF in metadata, there's
always Mozilla...
Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@
snee.com> "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy
spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii
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