Article:		Should Atom Use RDF?
Subject:		Schema languages as a wise teacher instead
Date:		2003-08-24 05:08:01
From:		Martijn Faassen
In the section 'A Wise Teacher' it is claimed thinking in terms of the RDF model is useful as it helps one think about cardinality and order. Doesn't an XML schema language help you think about the same thing? If you're going to write a schema for your XML format you will have to capture cardinality and order aspects in it. So if these examples are the main benefits of considering the RDF model then I don't really see the case for using RDF as opposed to schema here. Of course there's a case for reusing RDF tools. There's also probably a case to think in terms of the RDF model, which I don't know much about. It's just that the supplied examples didn't really work for me -- writing a schema seems to be a more natural way to be made to consider such issues. The nicest part of the article to me is the analysis of the 'related but completely independent' (sic) issues. I'm "interesting" on the model, "ugh" on the serialization, "would like to play with it using some Python tool one day" on tools and "small directly useful steps are good and we'll see where they'll lead us" on the semantic web. Martijn

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