- From: Benjamin Nowack <bnowack@semsol.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:57:07 +0200
- To: "Richard Newman" <r.newman@reading.ac.uk>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org, Keith Alexander <k.j.w.alexander@gmail.com>
On 05.09.2007 18:04:48, Keith Alexander wrote: >> >> Can you nest these structures? > >No. Let me add that this is an important feature, not a limitation. We've yet to see an agreed-on "RDF/XML Light" due to differing opinions and priorities, but one thing everyone agreed on was that a simplified RDF/XML should not have nested structures beyond s->p->o. If we allow too many different serialisation options, people have to *parse* instead of being able to just *use* the data structure right away. That's a deployment barrier, and we should have learned our lessons well from RDF/XML (which of course has other issues, too, but the "less is more" argument still holds in general). Benji -- Benjamin Nowack http://bnode.org/
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