> If someone can provide a good case for why XML would be good for > metadata specifically (and "XML is a cool technology" is not a good > answer), then we will use it, but for the moment it strikes me as being > like using a nuclear weapon to swat a fly.
I'm a pretty major XML-head myself, but I have to semi-agree in that I don't think Freenet itself should make use of any metadata that needs XML/RDF/whatever. The protocol should push bytes around: it should know a few lines of metadata like ContentType and Expires so it can present those bytes to a user and store them efficiently, and possibly multiple keys to find the bytes more efficiently. Anything more than that belongs in separate first-class documents and is a client issue. Now, I'd be thrilled to see clients that made use of documents that were RDF-formatted metadata about XML documents, both stored in Freenet with appropriate references. I'd love to see the same kinds of clients on the web using HTTP as well (Mozilla is a good start). But that's a client issue, not something that belongs in the protocol. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
