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> The basic idea of RDF that seems useful is naming things with > standard URIs. However, I simply don't see how the RDF syntax Actually, I agree with you. The official syntax is lame, but the fundamental concept of naming things with URIs is the key. The value of RDF is the data model; not the serialization syntax. > improves on XML+namespaces for that, and XML+namespaces is so > much nicer a syntax than RDF. Well, the big difference is that RDF is a "triples" data model, while XML is hierarchy. Setting aside the issues of how you *serialize* the triples, it's inevitable that "triples" will win in these "semantic" scenarios. OSAF Chandler is based on "triples", as is Longhorn's WinFS. Both are essentially "personal semantic web stores". Triples+URIs is how you bootstrap the "personal semantic web store" and make it universal. For a better syntax, maybe you would like TriX.
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