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Didier PH Martin wrote: > > Ok I get it. So, other XML documents may as well be processed by an RDF > parser and transformed into triples. Interesting, up to now I saw RDF in > more restrictive ways. Recently at work, I have been able to work in some rdf without requiring anyone else to get into rdf in a big way. For both of these jobs, we had to create a new xml foramt for certain data. I suggested using a variety of striped format that would look minimally different from "ordinary" xml. This approach also lets you write a (w3c xml-)schema or DTD for the file structure. My argument was that we would come up with something new anyway, so why not adapt it slightly for rdf-compatibility. This way, people can use ordinary xml tools - xslt or what have you - and if and when it proves useful, start using rdf-aware tools as well. I wrote the files by hand, and then validated them against the w3c rdf validator to make usre I hd gotten them right. It's true that you usually have to add a few things into the format to make the rdf work, but sometimes it takes very little. Cheers, Tom P -- Thomas B. Passin Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web (Manning Books) http://www.manning.com/catalog/view.php?book=passin
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