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"Eve L. Maler" wrote: > > When people talk about RDF, the "meta" part is what I have trouble with in > general. In what way is markup not metadata? In what way are element > content and attribute values not also metadata (depending on what you do > with them)? It feels weird for one particular data model to claim to have > cornered the metadata market. Here are definitions I use that are mostly free of the ambiguity people typically associate with the words content and metadata. Metadata is property/value oriented so that you can ask questions in terms of "what is the value of this property". Content is list within list oriented so that you can ask: "what comes before this item, and what comes after it." RDF data is content if you look at the XML level (because the XML data model doesn't make the <TITLE> element addressable as a property) but it is metadata if you look at the RDF level (because RDF really WOULD make the <TITLE> element addressable as a TITLE property). -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." --Lily Tomlin xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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