RE: Atom and RDF

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > The issue of using dc:subject for category, and
> > Danny's questions re: same
> > as noted in previous email [1] to group.
>
> This is not a solvable problem in the general case.

How general do you want? It covers virtually all web-related situations (I
can't think of an exception). It works for RDF. It works for RSS 1.0. It
could work for Pie/Echo/Atom.

Say 'something' is a known entity in the following RDF/XML :

<something>
	<abc:wibble>Carrot</abc:wibble>
</something>

Without knowing what "wibble" means in the abc namespace, we still know from
the syntax that the entity 'something' has an rdf:Property 'abc:wibble' with
the literal value 'Carrot'.

This is a huge head start for any processor. e.g. If another system asks
"what properties has 'something'?", a system ignorant of the meaning of
'abc:wibble' can still selectively pass on the above information.

> The link is
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/8/122029/2205 but
> the site is currently down.

I don't think the XSLT system you propose is 'that' higher-order model
either - it might be handy for rearranging XML documents, but doesn't
actually give you anything for the problem at hand. XSLT probably passes
your Turing test already anyway - because it's Turing-complete *, so the
system you describe, if possible, could be constructed. (*Smart guy, that
Turing).

XSLT is good for trees. RDF is good for webs.

Cheers,
Danny.