Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Specs (pt. 2)?
From: Dr. Matthias Nagorni (mana_AT_suse.de)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 16:09:20 EEST
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Steve Harris wrote:
> Fair enough, you could do this in XML too, but in RDF the description is
> exstensible without requiring a new DTD and other RDF files can extend the
> description without conflict. eg. you can can add dulin core metadata
Yes, but isn't a somewhat constrained set of "subjects" and "predicates"
(in RDF language) a very useful thing ? This way host programmers know
what features to take care of.
> I don't want to force the issue too much. I use RDF a lot in my job, so
> I'm comfortable with it, and know why its useful.
But maybe it's too difficult for people who do not happen to be
familiar with it anyway. Nevertheless I bought a book on XML and RDF today
and I'll have a look at RDF parsing. I see the whole subject from the
perspective of a host programmer whereas maybe you see it more from the
perspective of a plugin writer. Plugin writers of course would like to
have as little constraints as possible whereas host programmer need them
in order to implement all features required by the plugin.
Matthias
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