RDDL Makes Namespaces More Useful
XML Namespaces, while finding their way into most XML-related
software, have continued to provoke angst in the community because of the
practice of using URIs as names without saying what the URIs might point to.
Resource Directory Description Language
(RDDL) is a simple language designed to lurk at the pointy end of namespace URIs;
it combines XHTML, XLink, and one new element type. RDDL tries to package up
important human- and machine-readable information in a way that hits 80/20
points, and it is showing signs of catching on.
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Resource Directory Description Language
Tim Bray
Tim Bray - Tim Bray has been in the
technology business for 20 years. After jobs at DEC and GTE, he became Manager
of the New Oxford English Dictionary Project in 1987, co-founded Open Text
Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX) in 1989, and built one of the first successful
commercial Internet search engines in 1995. Between 1996 and 1999 served as an
independent consultant for, among others, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Adobe, the
United Nations, the European Union, the Government of Canada, A.T. Kearney, and
Merrill Lynch. During this period, serving as an invited expert for the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C), he co-invented XML and served as co-editor of the
W3C recommendations "XML 1.0" and "Namespaces in XML." Since mid-1999 he has
served as founder and CEO of Antarctica Systems Inc.
(http://antarcti.ca)
