- From: John Walker <john.walker@semaku.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:52:37 +0200
- To: Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
- Cc: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
Hi Martynas, Indeed abandoning XML based serialisations would be foolish IMHO. Both RDF/XML and TriX can be extremely useful in certain circumstances. John On 3 Sep 2015, at 19:53, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org> 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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