[XML-SIG] RDF Parser -> PyXML

[Nicolas Chauvat]

> You are right that I don't use RDF and so may be looking at it the
> wrong way, but to be honest I don't consider either RDF or topic maps
> as core XML technologies or even XML technologies at all. Sure, they
> use an XML serialization format, but that is the only connection apart
> from that they all are used for information management.
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> What is, really, the connection between RDF and XML?  (I am asking for
> enlightenment here. :)

I used to think the same and the more I use RDF, the more I consider it as
XML's other half. Ever used references to identifiers (IDs) in XML to
materialize relations between objects? Where did you stuff them... in
attributes or in text nodes? How would you tie two different source
objects to the same target object using the same type of relation... with
two different attributes (same name?) or element nodes, one for each
source object?

I you've ever faced that kind of situation and considered it to be a
problem, then RDF will be your friend.=20

I don't pretend to perfectly answer your question, just to hint at key RDF
advantages. BTW, I don't use topic maps, but what I read about it does not
make me consider it a core XML technology... as opposed to RDF.

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Nicolas Chauvat

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