At 9:56 PM -0400 6/4/04, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
>Right, an arbitrary piece of xml does not carry enough information
>to let you automatically distinguish between elements that represent
>things and those that represent properties. A person generally has
>to work that out. But when you do have a properly striped format,
>it can be easy to turn into rdf (it's usually just about there as
>is).
Why is there a distinction between "things" and "properties"? Isn't a
property a thing? Can't a property have properties of its own?
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
