• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: "'xml-dev@i...'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: 30 Oct 1999 05:58:04 -0400

Walter Underwood <wunder@i...> writes:

> >I think its potential is huge, dwarfing that of XML.   -Tim
> 
> I disagree on this one. It's rare that metacontent is more
> valuable than content, long-term. I'll bet on the books over
> the card catalog, every time.

That's just the problem with the spec -- if you forget the word/prefix
"meta" completely, RDF is just an XML format for object exchange; it
just happens that one possible application of those objects if
metadata, and the RDF-Syntax spec mixes the two together.


All the best,


David

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