Since Atom has traction for describing who/what/when, I'm an Atom junkie as a matter of practicality. As for the "what", when you're talking about data instead of presentation, there seems to be two best choices: w3c xml schema or RDF (RDFXML until some binary representation of RDF becomes popular). xml schema of course is likely to be more common but interestingly I expect to see more reuse on the RDF side. RDFXML in my opinion makes RDF look scary initially. IMO it'll be a great day when ATOM toolsets integrate with RDF toolsets well enough for developers to be able to use both easily. The key word is "easily." ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of pkeane Sent: Sat 10/6/2007 10:57 AM To: Brendan Taylor Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why use Atom?
Well, I am revisiting RDF and I think I may have been influenced unduly by the fear of an "RDF complexity tax" which, as you say, is probably overstated.
