[Geowanking] geo microformat BOF session at Where 2.0

[Tom Longson]

I don't think any of us are anti-XML as much as pro XML/RDF. Please
read more about RDF and see why it's such a powerful tool for
metadata.

-nym

On 7/5/05, Mattias Konradsson <mattias at globalvillage.nu> wrote:
> > RDF isn't a format; it's a graph model, one possible encoding of which
> > is in XML (n3, n-triples and turtle are others).
> > Once i have an RDF parser, and a storage that understands schemas, i
> > never need to look at or think about parsing another piece of XML ever
> > again.
> >
> > It took a while for that to 'click' with me, coming from a
> > DTD-oriented, SGML type perspective: reading the RDF primer helped
> > bootstrap my understanding:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/ http://librdf.org/ is a very useful
> > toolkit.
> 
> Yeah but why would you want to move away from xml? Xml is good, xml is
> pretty, xml makes my life complete :) We pretty much live in a xml centric
> world with very powerful standarized tools on all platforms. Sooner or later
> you have to output stuff in html, wap or whatever and that pretty much for
> me means xml and xslt. Moving to rdf centric implentations seems a bit
> backward. I mean, most of the time you're not going to have to actually
> write xml anyways since it'll be generated as an information carrier from
> the database. Xml is just information glue :)
> 
> Nothing like anti-xml comments to draw a xml purist like me into the
> discussion :) Hi all btw, I'm new on the list.
> 
> best regards
> --
> Mattias Konradsson
> 
> "GlobalVillage - world domination or public humiliation"
> http://www.globalvillage.nu/mattias
> 
> 
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