I'm thinking of using XUL to prototype a relatively simple system involving schools, teachers, students, classes, test docs, etc. Schools have teachers and students, students are in a grade, each doc has a subject, belongs to a student, etc.

I was going to do this using one of the sql interfaces, but I couldn't get the sql thingee to work, either for sqlite or mysql. So I've looked in to RDF a little bit. If I have only a few hundred records, I wonder if it would be faster just to hack up some RDF data and use that.

But I find it rather a hard slog making sense out of RDF. Why, oh why, can engineers not learn to write plain English? In any case, does anybody out there have any advice on the wisdom of such an approach? It looks like RDF would be pretty useful once learned, but if working with RDF data and interfaces is anywhere near as complicated and excruciating as getting through the documentation, then I would have to say no, thanks anyway, I'd rather have a tooth pulled without anaesthesia. Would my time be better spent figuring out what I'm doing wrong with the SQL components or learning RDF?

Thanks,

gregg
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