Re: Progress toward making RDF easier?

On 21/02/2020 08:29, Martynas Jusevičius wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:26 AM Thomas Francart
<thomas.francart@sparna.fr><mailto:thomas.francart@sparna.fr> wrote:



I read at https://us2ts.org/program-easier-rdf a proposal to deprecate RDF/XML. This syntax has a major advantage : it can be generated using XSLT from source XML files. This ability to bridge XML and RDF is also key in some projects.



I was about to write exactly the same thing. RDF/XML is a crucial
bridge to/from the XML stack.

To put it more generally, an XML serialization of RDF graphs is a crucial bridge to/from the XML stack. You could make an argument (under the 'simplify RDF' heading) for a less clever XML serialization which simply represents nodes and arcs for what they are. I did this when faced with the job of generating multiple RDF serializations from an XML source.  Once I had my 'simple RDF XML', I could write a single generic XSLT transform for each serialization required.  I couldn't begin to do that, starting from RDF/XML.

Also, as you imply, it's not just about generation of Linked Data: it's also about consumption. What I'm working on right now is an XSLT transform which uses the XSLT document() function to query a Linked Data resource and add lat/long coordinates to my source (XML) data.

Richard



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