- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:19:12 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
Hi Martynas, If your application depends on the syntax of RDF/XML then, rather than asking all publishers to supply that format, I would suggest that you use an RDF converter as an input filter. The input filter could then read any of the standard RDF serializations and still provide your application with the specific serialization that it requires. All of the major RDF tool sets have converters that can read one RDF serialization and write another. David Booth On 09/03/2015 01:53 PM, Martynas Jusevičius wrote: > With due respect, I think it would be foolish to burn the bridges to > XML. The XML standards and infrastructure are very well developed, > much more so than JSON-LD's. We use XSLT extensively on RDF/XML. > > Martynas > graphityhq.com > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:03 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote: >> Side note: RDF/XML was the first RDF serialization standardized, over 15 >> years ago, at a time when XML was all the buzz. Since then other >> serializations have been standardized that are far more human friendly to >> read and write, and easier for programmers to use, such as Turtle and >> JSON-LD. >> >> However, even beyond ease of use, one of the biggest problems with RDF/XML >> that I and others have seen over the years is that it misleads people into >> thinking that RDF is a dialect of XML, and it is not. I'm sure this >> misconception was reinforced by the unfortunate depiction of XML in the >> foundation of the (now infamous) semantic web layer cake of 2001, which in >> hindsight is just plain wrong: >> http://www.w3.org/2001/09/06-ecdl/slide17-0.html >> (Admittedly JSON-LD may run a similar risk, but I think that risk is >> mitigated now by the fact that RDF is already more established in its own >> right.) >> >> I encourage all RDF publishers to use one of the other standard RDF formats >> such as Turtle or JSON-LD. All commonly used RDF tools now support Turtle, >> and many or most already support JSON-LD. >> >> RDF/XML is not officially deprecated, but I personally hope that in the next >> round of RDF updates, we will quietly thank RDF/XML for its faithful service >> and mark it as deprecated. >> >> David Booth >> > > > >
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