Re: RDF/JSON

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

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Benjamin Nowack
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Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2007 17:57:12 UTC