Default RDF serialization from David Booth on 2012-08-23 (public-ldp-wg@w3.org from August 2012)

From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:08:05 -0400
To: public-ldp-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <1345730885.8643.11153.camel@dbooth-laptop>

FWIW, if the LD profile is going to recommend one RDF serialization as
the default for RDF, I would argue strongly that it should be Turtle
instead of RDF/XML, because:

 (a) Turtle is far more human friendly to read;
 (b) RDF/XML is not XML Schema friendly; 
 (c) RDF/XML has XML-based restrictions (such as prohibiting local names
that start with a digit) that make certain RDF difficult to represent;
 (d) RDF/XML has had a history of misleading developers who are familiar
with XML (but not RDF) into thinking that RDF is just a kind of XML.

Thanks!

-- 
David Booth, Ph.D.
http://dbooth.org/

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Received on Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:08:42 UTC