Re: ASSERTION, QUESTION, SUGGESTION

From: R.V.Guha (guha@guha.com)
Date: 04/04/02 




 

Having fought and lost (well, at least not won) this battle in the

context of RDF vs XML,  with a bunch of  Netscape's

enterprise customers, a couple of years ago, I'd like to

add my 2 cents.

The minute the issue is framed as anything vs XML, there is

just no chance of winning. Skillions of dollars are being spent

by companies that are trying to outdo each other in professing

their devotion to XML.

I would suggest that we need to have an elevator pitch that explains

rdf/rdfs/daml as adding semantics to XML or making it easier to

develop schemas or something like that. In my view, this is not

a misrepresentation, a clarification.

There is an interesting talk by Hasso Plattner --- who the intended

audience will take very seriously --- where he says that xml just

provides common syntax, but we need semantics. (see

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-869941.html).

.

guha









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