Re: RDF being phased out?

On Aug 4, 1:39=A0pm, <"neil.stansbury () redbacksystems ! com"> wrote:

> Axel, by RDF/XML do you mean the document format?
>
> If so I quite agree - the [immense] value we get from RDF is the
> aggregated graph. =A0All our triples are being stored in SQLite anyway so
> the document format to us is irrelivant. =A0Though I had assumed
> manipulating the triples would be the hard part rather tha parsing an
> XML doc.
>
> N

I wholeheartedly agree with that statement as well.  I'm new to
Mozilla (been working with it for 6 months), and before being exposed
to Mozilla's RDF implementation I was trying convoluted ways of making
my flat file and RDBMS systems behave like the RDF specs.  The whole
concept breaks us free of tables and columns, a big step forward for
data query and manipulation.  Send RDF/XML to the yard sale as far as
I'm concerned, but the whole idea of an infinite range of nodes and
links cannot be stuffed in the trash, lest we step back in time with
XML or something... XML data stores are not really an improvement over
RDBMS and SQL.  (SOAP was a waste of time).

Yes, Mozilla's API's are rubbish, but they were ahead of their time...
What do we expect.  Can the API's be redone in Mozilla 2?  If not, I'd
rather keep using my wrappers than give it up entirely.

--Kris