Re: The syntax issue

Hi all

+1 for "Turtle or RDF/XML as the default syntax for writing R2RML files, 
i.e. R2RML mappings should themselves be RDF graphs"

I think, later on, we can choose an additional syntax.

Best

Boris


Michael Hausenblas wrote:
>> But, we should also consider having an XML syntax just b/c of its
>> popularity and widespread familiarity.
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> 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 ;)
>
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>> However, as Ashok said, if we have more than one syntax we should also
>> have tools to translate from one syntax to another.
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> 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 :)
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> Cheers,
>       Michael
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