Re: The stupidest design I ever saw

JOG wrote:

> Andy Dingley wrote:
> > On 5 Apr 2006 11:17:49 -0700, "Marshall  Spight"
> > <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >the real world is tree structured.
> >
> > No, the real world is graph structured. Tress are just a limited special
> > case of graphs.
> >
> > Another advantage of RDF over XML's data model!
>
> you are joking right?

Andy's posting history doesn't leave any doubt that he is serious. Anyway, the link to RDF turned out to be informative. Here is what I found:

<rdf:RDF
  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"   xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"   xml:base="http://example.org/schemas/vehicles">

<rdf:Description rdf:ID="MotorVehicle">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/>
</rdf:Description>

<rdf:Description rdf:ID="PassengerVehicle">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/>
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#MotorVehicle"/>
</rdf:Description>

<rdf:Description rdf:ID="Truck">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/>
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#MotorVehicle"/>
</rdf:Description>

<rdf:Description rdf:ID="Van">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/>
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#MotorVehicle"/>
</rdf:Description>

<rdf:Description rdf:ID="MiniVan">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Class"/>
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Van"/>
<rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#PassengerVehicle"/>
</rdf:Description>

</rdf:RDF>

The folks who wrote this apparently have no idea that graph is defined by the set of nodes and edges between them. They wrap their naive understanding what the graph is into XML cludgy syntax and claim it to be a superior solution. To what problem may I ask? Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 20:20:12 CDT