RE: [RSS-DEV] Re: [syndication] Time for XHTML-RSS?

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>]

 How is anyone
> going to generate RSS 1.0 if they cannot program?

Let the Trotts do the programming - Movable Type works for me! When they get
TypePad up and running it should be even easier.

> The fact is, RDF is a graph that is easy to understand when presented as
> a graph.  Trying to represent a graph in linear fashion as RDF or any
> other serialization is going to be hard for people to grasp. Only
> programmers, computer scientists, etc. should have to deal with a
> serialized graph. A visual presentation of a graph is suitable for the
> layperson, because RDF is simple.  Written linear text (i.e. english)
> have the same problem as RDF, which is the motivation for concept maps.

Agreed, mostly - I'd add "machines" to your list of who have to deal with
serialized RDF, and point out that a serialization as statements (i.e. a
list of triples) as ntriples, n3 or made up pseudocode isn't difficult to
grok:

http://mysite.com dc:creator "me"

It's worth remembering that the same problem applies just as much to XML or
any other data representation. For example a filesystem's tree structure
expressed in XML is trivial to understand. But a representation of the
hyperlink structure of a website could be totally opaque in XML.

Cheers,
Danny.