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• Subject: Re: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 13:31:16 -0400
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 10:17 AM -0400 6/5/04, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> 
> 
>> Mary
>>    hasEyes
>>       color:blue
>>       shape:round
> 
> 
> 
> Wouldn't you really say:
> 
> Mary
>    has
>      Eyes
>       color:blue
>       shape:round
> 
> "hasEyes" seems stretched to me. It mixes a predicate and an object that 
> naturally seem distinct.

Yes, you probably would, and I am just working up a longer post on 
representing that in quasi-striped rdf/xml format.  It should be along 
shortly.  I think that the point here, though, is that most (ordinary) 
xml leaves off the extra layer, whether it is the noun or the verb.

Cheers,

Tom P

Explorer's Guide the the Semantic Web (Manning Books)
http://www.manning.com/catalog/view.php?book=passin

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