Re: [xml-dev] Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: [xml-dev]InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

Robert Koberg wrote:

> I am trying to get a handle on this issue. Can you post an example or 
> link of WinFS XML(?) or triples? I have googled around but only find 
> blog entries with no examples. Specifically, what does a 'folder' within 
> a 'folder' look like? Is a page the end, or in other words is it the 
> content?
> 

Hierarchical containment is a bit awkward, but RDF has a few built-in 
idioms for doing it.  Probably the most prominent of these is the 
first-rest idiom, which Lisp promulgated so well.

Cheers,

Tom P