I think the fable is an excellent example of how programmer productivity is suffering because we use XML rather than RDF over XML for many similar applications.
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> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:]
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> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Article on using RDF to provide
> extensibility and modularity
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> Perhaps we should just rename this list rdf-dev, since XML is so
> obviously inadequate for information representation on so many fronts.
>
> Maybe we can just build a reservation for those of us, myself
> included,
> who find RDF mostly useless for the kinds of information
> processing they
> consider interesting, and let the RDF folks take over what remains of
> the hype wave XML once generated.
>
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> Simon St.Laurent
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