From: james@...
Date: 2002-02-24T02:25:50+09:00
Subject: RE: rdoc/xml questions



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave@thomases.com [mailto:dave@thomases.com]On Behalf Of Dave
> Thomas
> >james@rubyxml.com writes:
> > I'm also wondering if there exists some appropriate RDF-based syntax
> > that can be used for this.  (On the other hand, that may just make
> > this more complicated than it need be.)
>
> Could you elaborate on the RDF stuff?

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is an W3C XML syntax designed to describe
relationships.
The W3C page is here:
http://www.w3.org/RDF/

The blurb at the top of this page says,
"The Resource Description Framework (RDF) integrates a variety of applications from
library catalogs and world-wide directories to syndication and aggregation of news,
software, and content to personal collections of music, photos, and events using XML as an
interchange syntax. The RDF specifications provide a lightweight ontology system to
support the exchange of knowledge on the Web."

It's a way to express properties and relationships.  RSS 1.0 (RDF site sumary,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/specification.html) is an example of common
use. The RDF Model Theory working draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/) is a somewhat
uber-geek description of relationship modeling.

Now, when I mentioned RDF for rdoc, I was *sure* there was some use of it for software
modeling, but right now I can't find a sutiable reference. (Perhaps Tobias knows of one?)


James



>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>