On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 02:42 +0800, Petko Petkov wrote: > I guess it’s a stupid question, but I still do not understand why RDF is better than just XML. > I understand that XML is just an approach of describe other markup languages and I believe that > RDFS goes on the top of XML. That’s great, but, we are making our lives harder again and again. > Simple XML tags are much powerful than RDF statements and the triplets can be represented in much > simpler way using namespaces. > > I have read somewhere that XML and XML Schemas are not good because XSD implies specific rules on > the document structure. I find this explanation rather stupid than complete. XSD have the capabilities > to include into a particular element different elements that may come from different namespace for example. > I examined Firefox structure to see real RDF examples. Although, Firefox is just the best browser in the > world, RDFS can be replaced by XML. > > Can somebody explain to me? > > Thanks > The following article is a decent RDF is not XML intro: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/57/ -- MichaelReceived on Friday, 12 November 2004 18:59:02 UTC
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