• To: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Subject: Re: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 06:43:53 -0400
• Cc: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
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At 9:56 PM -0400 6/4/04, Thomas B. Passin wrote:

>Right, an arbitrary piece of xml does not carry enough information 
>to let you automatically distinguish between elements that represent 
>things and those that represent properties.  A person generally has 
>to work that out.  But when you do have a properly striped format, 
>it can be easy to turn into rdf (it's usually just about there as 
>is).


Why is there a distinction between "things" and "properties"? Isn't a 
property a thing? Can't a property have properties of its own?
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   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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