Re: [xml-dev] RDF Interpretation of XML documents (was Re: [xml-dev] patterns vs. identifiers)

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 16:52, Mike Champion wrote:
> 8/20/2002 10:31:47 AM, John Cowan <> wrote:
> 
> 
> >If you change the id attribute to rdf:id, then this is also RDF.
> >Unless it contains mixed content, almost any reasonable XML document
> >has an RDF interpretation.
> 
> An honest  question, not a troll: what can an RDF processor usefully
> do with such a document?

It can see it as triples ie under a different perspective and is very
good at consolidating information about the same resources coming from
different documents.

Seeing information as triples gives a very nice granularity, more
flexible than RDBMS when the information isn't normalized to fit into
tables and is easy to query (even though RDF query languages aren't
normalized).

Making the effort of writing a XML document in a RDF friendly ways is
thus opening new possibilities without adding much complexity.

My 0.02 Euros.

Eric
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