Re: [xml-dev] ANN: White Paper - "Using OWL to Avoid SyntacticRig or Mortis"

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2003-04-18T15:40:34Z
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Re: [xml-dev] ANN: White Paper - "Using OWL to Avoid SyntacticRig or Mortis"
 (Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)) writes:
>Our only disagreement was against your judgement of "some folks" in
>your comment.
>
>IMHO the major reason behind XML's success is because it easy to
>attach semantics on it and then process them with relative ease. From
>a limited point of view, RDF is just a specialization of the above
>recipe for success.

IMHO, RDF botches the "easy" part quite thoroughly, and is hence a
recipe for success only for specialists, preferably specialists who only
care about the graphs, not the markup. 

That seems to be at the heart of our disagreement, and I doubt that will
disappear.

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