Re: [office-metadata] finishing up

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

On May 3, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Svante Schubert wrote:

> I further believe the new graph will provide a similar amount of  
> blank nodes and be similar verbose, but the earlier used  
> 'normalized' RDF/XML has the advantage to ease XML processing and  
> comes closer to the locical nested view of a package.

Svante -- you're thinking in XML again. This is not XML (except only  
coincidentally). Blank nodes are a pretty hackish way to use RDF  
(even if sometimes needed).

> Is there really a benefit in the alternate approach?

Yes, the (RDF) modeling is cleaner/simpler. Just think about  
representing it in N3.

Bruce