>Ed,
>
>That is only partly true:
>
> > It is my personal view that RDF and its children were really
> > intended only to be read by specialized software tools, and
> > some of those tools might reasonably be 'ontology editors'
> > that present the ontology in a form that is easier to work with.
>
>The original GML notation was designed in 1969 as a more readable
>and typable notation that was closer to the author's intent than
>the SCRIPT formatting tags. At IBM in the 1970s, every secretary
>learned to type GML tags, which included the basic HTML subset.
>
>When HTML came out, professional web designers preferred to type
>HTML tags directly (because of the WYSIAYG problem -- What You
>See Is *All* You Get). There is no reason why XML could not
>have supported the professionals in the same way that GML and
>HTML did.
>
>As for RDF, I recommend Tim Bray's note about what happened:
>
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/21/RDFNet
> ongoing · The RDF.net Challenge
>
>As Tim said, "It's the Syntax, Stupid!" And he apologized
>for it. Unfortunately, the W3C didn't accept his apology. (01)
OK OK, but there are now several other syntaxes
for RDF - NTriples, Turtle, N3 - most of them
directly about the triples, just as Tim
recommended in 03. SPARQL will accept RDF/XML but
uses Turtle syntax as the default. I refused to
use rdf/xml when writing the RDF semantics
document, and used simplified NTriples notation
throughout, and nobody complained: and that was
in the spec itself. (02)
Pat (03)
>John
>
>
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