Matters

Bill de hOra: RDF: I fought the markup: "I spoke with a colleague of mine yesterday. He's working with XUL/Mozilla at the moment. His least favourite bit? The RDF/XML. Hates it. Since he knows I'm an RDF fan, he rightly wonders what could I see in it. So... here's a six year old markup language, that started with three syntactic forms all lumped together; that was an early testbed for how to use namespaces; whose opportunity for real development in the W3C was hamstrung by its charter (and yet, while equally constrained, the model was rewritten from the ground up). Even its own working group didn't use it."