- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:03:50 +0000
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-sweo-ig@w3.org, "Bill de hOra" <bill@dehora.net>
On 18 Nov 2006, at 18:28, Danny Ayers wrote: > > The other day I challenged Bill deHora to be more specific about some > criticism. Soon after he gave a solid response [1], but in passing > suggested: "typing rdf sucks into a search engine is a good start". > Out of curiosity I tried it, checking the first 20 hits on Google. > Obviously it's not exactly stringent test of popular opinion, but it > was quite interesting (and Bill was right about views on RDF/XML). > > In summary, RDF sucks because of - > > RDF/XML : 5 I have to say I'm not a huge fan of RDF/XML myself, whilst an XML serialisation is important RDF/XML is difficult to write and very hard to generate neatly. It's a pain to parse too. My experiences of introducing developers to RDF is that they generally take to N3/Turtle or NTriples much more easily. The RDF/XML syntax is a lot to pick up on top of the RDF model. - Steve
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