Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

You missed the part about global identifiers. XML does not have them.
RDF has them built in: URIs.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 6:21 AM Thomas Passin <tpassin@tompassin.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/26/2018 10:54 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
> >
> > XML and JSON are all about tree structures. RDF defines the more
> > flexible data structure of graphs
>
> It probably doesn't matter for this discussion, but I've seen statements
> like this too often.  XML actually can represent graphs perfectly well.
> One way is by using ID/IDREFs, and there are many other ways.  Just
> because an XML document reads serially from start to finish doesn't mean
> it has to represent a tree instead of a graph (leaving aside the matter
> that a a tree is a particular kind of graph structure!).  In fact,
> that's obvious because the XML syntax for RDF interchange describes RDF
> graphs.
>
> XML elements (the ones without ID values, anyway) can be considered to
> be typed anonymous nodes.  You could regard them as bnodes that have a
> type relation but not an ID.
>
> TomP
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 27 November 2018 09:34:54 UTC