Re: Please publish Turtle or JSON-LD instead of RDF/XML [was Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?]

It is interesting to see the XML-haters want to abandoned RDF/XML.  IF you
do not like it then do not use it.  But remmber that there is not an RDF
serialization that can fully accomplish structural integrity like XML
Schema.  RDF/XML gives us the ability to mix both in one structurally and
semantically complete document.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:52 PM, John Walker <john.walker@semaku.com> wrote:

> 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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