Look, we get it, already!
Yet another article on how those goldarned XML people, they just don’t grok the fullness that is RDF. And by gosh, if we noble RDF lovers won’t condescend once more to help their teeny-tiny brains get it.
Look. RDF people? We get it. We really do. I know enough about RDF to put it into operation, if it were any damned use to me whatever.
Just once. ONCE. I would like an RDF person to take a good hard look at some real-world uses of XML. I think TEI or DocBook would be an utterly smashing place to start. So would blogs, for that matter; it’s incredibly telling that the RDF-based trackbacks and pingbacks that have become part of blog infrastructure have to be stuck in XML comments because RDF/XML plays so horrendously badly with other XML vocabularies in real-world use contexts.
We XML people, we have done a lot of work to grok RDF and RDF/XML. What you RDF people have not done is put one iota of effort into studying what we do, and why RDF and RDF/XML are poorly-suited to it.
I am absolutely through apologizing for not being an RDF fan(atic). The arrogant bloody RDFers need to get over their bad selves, already. While not all RDFers are arrogant, the arrogant apples are spoiling the barrel.
Ite, markup-rant est.