[XML-SIG] RDF Parser -> PyXML

[Thomas B. Passin]

One thing to consider is that a separate effort for pyRDF might have trouble
gaining critical mass - enough developers to really keep it going - if it
were not part of a larger activity like PyXML.  Here's what I suggest.  By
all means let's welcome the RDF contributions into the PyXML fold and CVS.
Keep the RDF code in a separate "rdf" package, not the "xml" package.  The
RDF work should have its own co-captain, I would thnk.  I'm sure Andrew has
more than enough to keep him busy as it is!

Then in the future if the time should come to split off a separate PyRDF
SIG, it will be easy to do so and the XML SIG will have become its proud
parent.

In the meantime, thinking about RDF will be like getting a whole new group
of use cases, whiich could lead to improvements in the mainline xml work
too.

Cheers,

Tom P

Lars Marius Garshol wrote -

>  - use or support the XML data model (RDF fails here)
>  - are not XML applications themselves (whether RDF fails here can be
argued)
>  - help you build XML applications and software
>
> Catalogs, TREX, XSLT, XPath and so on all meet these criteria while
> RDF does not. RDF has its own parsers, its own data model, its own
> schema language, its own databases and its own everything.
>
> To me these are strong arguments for why a separate package of RDF
> functionality makes more sense than to provide parsers, object model
> implementations and validators for two different data models in the
> same package.
>