At 12:53 PM -0400 6/11/04, Mark Baker wrote:
>So the value add of RDF/XML over vanilla XML is the same as the value
>add of having a standardized database schema over the alternative of
>not having one.
I'd call that a value-subtract. If that really is all there is to
RDF, then RDF is fundamentally, absolutely broken and actively
harmful. I cannot imagine working with a single database schema for
all my needs, much less all of everyone else's. If that's really what
RDF is shooting for, then I have to conclude that RDF is evil and
should be actively opposed. But just maybe, that's not really what
RDF's trying to do, and it's not so evil. :-)
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
