Re: [office-metadata] finishing up

[Svante Schubert <Svante.Schubert@Sun.COM>]

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Svante Schubert wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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).
>
Excactly that was my point, the earlier XML point of view was easier to 
handle.
>> Is there really a benefit in the alternate approach?
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> Yes, the (RDF) modeling is cleaner/simpler. Just think about 
> representing it in N3.
Please state the difference between the two graphs.

Svante