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At 12:53 PM -0400 6/11/04, Mark Baker wrote: >So the value add of RDF/XML over vanilla XML is the same as the value >add of having a standardized database schema over the alternative of >not having one. I'd call that a value-subtract. If that really is all there is to RDF, then RDF is fundamentally, absolutely broken and actively harmful. I cannot imagine working with a single database schema for all my needs, much less all of everyone else's. If that's really what RDF is shooting for, then I have to conclude that RDF is evil and should be actively opposed. But just maybe, that's not really what RDF's trying to do, and it's not so evil. :-) -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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