- From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 18:00:47 -0600
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, me@aaronsw.com, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> N-Triples is very handy for testing parsers, and quick-hack pipes > into Perl scripts. But it is unreadably verbose, impossible to skim > accurately, and not integrated into the rest of the XML-oriented modern > world. Promoting N-Triples as the best way of exchanging RDF in the wild > is bad for RDF, bad for XML, and bad for Web interop. > > Aaron, I understand that you don't like the RDF/XML syntax, but please > keep some perspective in your critiques. It is nowhere near as bad as you > make out. There are parsers available in most every language, and a > cleaned up syntax and test cases that make these more reliable. > > The Web community, and the entire computing industry, have settled on XML > as a basis for data interchange. Maybe they're wrong, but that's a battle > no longer worth fighting. Dragging RDF further still from the XML > mainstream would be extremely ill-advised. <aol:me-too>As always, Dan, very well said, and very well reasoned</aol:me-too> Of course I do tend to side more with Patrick in the isDefineBy debate ;-) I hope to pitch in when I have a moment. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Track chair, XML/Web Services One (San Jose, Boston): http://www.xmlconference.com/ DAML Reference - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/01/damlref.html The Languages of the Semantic Web - http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s= 2453/new1020218556549/index.html XML, The Model Driven Architecture, and RDF @ XML Europe - http://www.xmleurope.com/2002/kttrack.asp#themodel
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