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Celsius to Fahrenheit is a much better example than my RSS related date example. Thanks for providing it. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss. ________________________________ From: Bill de hÓra [mailto:bill.dehora@p...] Sent: Wed 12/1/2004 6:39 AM To: Dare Obasanjo Cc: Michael Champion; xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations (was RE: Web Services/SOA) Dare Obasanjo wrote: > One of the things I've found interesting about discussions with the > RDF/Semantic Web crowd is that many of them fail to see that moving to > ontologies and the like basically is swapping one mapping mechanism > (e.g. transformations using XSLT or regular code in your favorite OOP > language) for another (e.g. creating ontolgies using technologies like > OWL or DAML+OIL). I wonder who they might be? > However the Semantic Web > related mapping technologies don't allow for the kind of complex and > messy mappings that occur in the real world. Like Celsius to Fahrenheit? I don't understand why anyone would be surprised at this in what is essentially data description work. But there are cases where something like OWL has value in describing things - Ian Davis example for Atom versioning comes to mind. cheers Bill
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