Dissillusioned about interoperability.

[Rick Jelliffe]

From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley at bristol.ac.uk>

 >I've been playing today with using XSL stylesheets to map arbitrary
XML
>dialects into the RDF resource/property/value world. Seems quite
>feasible;

I've been telling my students that, to a certain extent, RDF merely
involves making
certain of the semantics that are implicit in any DTD explicit (and
thereby
computer-processable).

As far as this is true, people do not need to author data in RDF XML,
since they
can transform into it.  What is more important is that designers of a
DTD should
consider whether the DTD (and documentation) has everything in it to
allow the document to be satisfactorily transformed into RDF XML if
needed.

And I suspect  that this ultimately boils down to using well-known
controlled
vocabularies which have accepted names (formal public identifiers such
as URNs)
and also to using as specific element types as possible.  Does this
sound right?


Rick Jelliffe


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