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   RE: [xml-dev] ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and mod

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  • Subject: RE: [xml-dev] ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and modularity
  • From: "Doug Ransom" <Doug.Ransom@pwrm.com>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:47:11 -0700
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  • Thread-topic: [xml-dev] ANN: Article on using RDF to provide extensibility and modularity

I think the fable is an excellent example of how programmer productivity is suffering because we use XML rather than RDF over XML for many similar applications.  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 7:50 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Article on using RDF to provide
> extensibility and modularity
> 
> 
> Perhaps we should just rename this list rdf-dev, since XML is so
> obviously inadequate for information representation on so many fronts.
> 
> Maybe we can just build a reservation for those of us, myself 
> included,
> who find RDF mostly useless for the kinds of information 
> processing they
> consider interesting, and let the RDF folks take over what remains of
> the hype wave XML once generated.
> 
> -- 
> Simon St.Laurent
> Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
> Errors, errors, all fall down!
> http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
> 
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