On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Nicolas
Alvarez<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Anthony Bryan wrote:
>> maybe metalink in RDF would be a good place to start, I know it uses some
>> DC
>>
>> http://www.metalinker.org/metalink2rdfxml.xsl
>
> This would be way too big a change. RDF is a totally different data model
> (labeled directed graph) from XML (tree with multiple node types). It just
> happens that it can be represented in a specific XML format. But also in
> other formats, so metalink clients would have to understand more than XML.

I'm not saying use RDF...

this was in reply to Nils' last 2 questions:

 * Should there be a lot of DC elements that generators should use (as
opposed to other elements). How would we map the current set of
elements to DC elements?
 * Can all of the current elements be easily mapped? Which elements
must stay?

doesn't this xsl file translate Metalink elements into DC?

<origin> -> <dc:source>
<published> -> <dc:date>
<description> -> <dc:description>
<updated> -> <dcterms:modified>

anyways, I've been advised against using DC by IETF folk so it's
probably not worth pursuing. :)

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