- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:06:13 -0600
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Cc: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Jeremy, I wonder if the takeup of RDF/XML was simply the result of the early availability of Jena? And that if a similarly reliable, complete, well-engineered open-source toolkit has been provided at an very early stage for a different XML syntax, then that might have been the winner? Pat On Jan 14, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > Steve Harris wrote: >> >>> * an RDF/XML profile (as above) designed for maximum compatibility >>> with XPath/XSLT/XQuery >> >> That would be nice. I often thing that RDF/XML is not a terribly >> good way to encode RDF in XML. > > TriX was meant to address that need. I do not believe its take up > has been significant. > For several years now my view has been that RDF/XML is an obviously > flawed system, with no compelling alternative. > > Jeremy > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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