- From: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:32:44 +0200
- To: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>, <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Hi Rick, > So there is still no convenient way to mark up existing XML as RDF? It > was a showstopper 10 years ago but I kind of expected there would have been some progress I rather think that using XML as the default representation for RDF was the showstopper back then. RDF/XML is not a good serialisation for RDF, Turtle and N-Triples would have been a much better choice in comparison. I guess the choice for RDF/XML was made for diplomatic reasons (not basing any kind of new data standard on XML was unthinkable at that time), rather than practicality. > (Like I said, it has different info from the HTML so adding RDFa to the > HTML won't work; also the XML has existing customers so we don't want to > alter that, though the idea of duplicating the XML data as RDF seems > workable but a terrible hack; and we want to avoid having a new datafeed.) So you do not want to alter the XML in a substantial way, and neither want to create a RDF representation out of the XML via some kind of transformation? I am afraid that solving you problem is not possible under these constraints. Cheers, Matthias Samwald DERI Galway, Ireland http://deri.ie/ Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria http://kli.ac.at/
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