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Re: RDF 2 Wishlist: Turtle Syntax

From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:50:09 +0100
Message-ID: <1f2ed5cd0911011150n707201bfq8d247a6df603ff4@mail.gmail.com>
To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
2009/11/1 Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>:
>> 2009/11/1 Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>:
>> > So, what should W3C standardize next in the area of RDF, if anything?
>>
>> Turtle syntax.
>
> Yeah...  Any insights into how to handle the costs of having multiple
> syntaxes?  Should the expectation be that all RDF consuming software
> will handling exactly three syntaxes (RDF/XML, RDFa, and Turtle)?  I
> guess many systems already do, and compared to the other two, parsing
> Turtle is trivial.

The costs of having multiple syntaxes? How much has RDF/XML cost?

No need for anyone to change their parser design, just make a simple
syntax the first thing people see when they look for RDF.

It's a bit late in the day I know, but I wish I'd have bugged the
SPARQL folks about matching the syntax.

Ch
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