Re: The syntax issue

> But, we should also consider having an XML syntax just b/c of its
> popularity and widespread familiarity.

Hmm, I think in terms of manual editing Richard has made very good points
and I've so far not really seen good arguments for XML beside the above
(which is, I think, not the strongest one ;)

> However, as Ashok said, if we have more than one syntax we should also
> have tools to translate from one syntax to another.

That's easy. If we have Turtle as syntax (which I do prefer due to many
reasons, most of them already covered by Richard), then I'd claim that any
RDF processor out there can immediately turn it into RDF/XML :)

Cheers,
      Michael

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> From: Souri Das <Souripriya.Das@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:01:46 -0400
> To: RDB2RDF WG <public-rdb2rdf-wg@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: The syntax issue
> Resent-From: RDB2RDF WG <public-rdb2rdf-wg@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:02:36 +0000
> 
> I have not had time to carefully go thru Richard's justifications for
> RDF serialization yet, but I think RDF serialization may be needed.
> But, we should also consider having an XML syntax just b/c of its
> popularity and widespread familiarity.
> However, as Ashok said, if we have more than one syntax we should also
> have tools to translate from one syntax to another.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Souri.
> 
> ashok malhotra wrote:
>> If we are arguing syntax then we are done :-)
>> 
>> If we end up with more than one syntax it would be good if it was
>> possible
>> to automatically translate from one syntax to the other.
>> All the best, Ashok
>> 
>> 
>> Michael Hausenblas wrote:
>>>> I propose to proceed based on the concepts of Souri's approach, but
>>>> with an RDF serialization instead of XML as the surface syntax.
>>>>     
>>> 
>>> +1
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>>       Michael
>>> 
>>>   
>> 
> 
>

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