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Re: [xml-dev] The perils of P18S (was Re: [xml-dev] Why RDF is hard )
by Uche Ogbuji other posts by this author
Nov 19 2002 2:36PM messages near this date
Re: [xml-dev] RDF for unstructured databases, RDF for axiomatic | [xml-dev] What are the arguments *for* XHTML 2.0?
>  > As such, I tend to see the ecent RDF-bashing as PC.  You seem to think
>  of
>  > RDF itself as PC.  See what I mean?  The term is useless.  Leave it
>  among
>  > the drags of unimaginative political punditry, where it belongs.
>  
>  Uche,
>  
>  You are confusing Common Sense with Political Correctness.  RDF is
>  butt-ugly, confusing, and useless in its current form.  After years of
>  TimBL and W3C pitching RDF hard, I have yet to see a single successful
>  application of RDF that couldn't be done without RDF. 

That's what I mean by "content free".  You are entitled to your opinion, but 
unencumbered as this one of yours is with even a hint of logical merit, I 
shall wave it off and proceed to useful work.

I do want to mention that "PC" is as much subject to Godwin's law as "nazi" or 
"hitler".


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p
y.html
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind
ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in
dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807
Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork
s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html



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