[microformats-discuss] FYI: two posting about the Semantic Web, the "SynWeb", scraping and microformats

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> 
> Given that, I don't see anything fundamentally different between 
> expressing relationships as RDF triples vs. a "rel" between two 
> documents.  You may not like the syntax as much, but so what? What 
> exactly does that syntax (or rather, the relational model behind it) 
> actually get you?

You're right, they are similar. Humans don't do either, in general.

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