RE: [xml-dev] What is RDF for? (Was: What are Web Services for?)

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Matthew Gertner <>
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'John Cowan' <>, Matthew Gertner <>
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2002-04-30T11:32:50Z
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RE: [xml-dev] What is RDF for? (Was: What are Web Services for?)
John Cowan wrote:
> If you feed this to an RDF processor, and assuming some default
> namespace is in effect (say, the same that has the x: prefix),
> then it will spew these triples:
> 
> _:a	rdf:type	x:movie
> _:a	x:name		"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"
> _:a	x:director	"Kevin Smith"
> 
> So, without meaning to, you have actually written a perfectly
> correct RDF document.  It asserts that the "movie" element
> represents a resource of type x:movie, with an x:name of "Jay and 
> Silent Bob Strike Back" and an x:director of "Kevin Smith".

What value does use of RDF add in this case?

Matt