- From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 02:51:49 -0400
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- cc: RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com> wrote: > > On 2002-06-04 3:11, "ext Michael Kifer" <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote: > > >>>>>> "SR" == "Seth Russell" <of Mon, 03 Jun 2002 10:35:26 PDT> writes: > > > > MK> NTriples can be naturally encoded in XML and exchanged. > > > > SR> Is that actually true? How? > > > > <triple><subject ...>subj</subject><property>...</property> <object> ... > > </object> </triple> > > Why of course. Why did we not see this before?! > > We can just use a subset of RDF instead of NTriples: > > <rdf:RDF ...> > <rdf:Statement> > <rdf:subject rdf:resource="http://foo.com/bar"/> > <rdf:predicate rdf:resource="voc://abc.org/blarrg"/> > <rdf:object rdf:resource="#node12345"/> > </rdf:Statement> > <rdf:Statement> > <rdf:subject rdf:resource="#node12345"/> > <rdf:predicate rdf:resource="voc://abc.org/booga"/> > <rdf:object>Gumby</rdf:object> > </rdf:Statement> > ... > </rdf:RDF> > > I hereby propose we toss NTriples altogether and just use RDF/XML > as above for all test cases output. > > RDF/XML provides all the mechanisms needed to explicitly express > the precise triples existing in any RDF graph, as RDF/XML. > > (not really joking about this, actually ;-) Neither am I. A fine interchange format. The triples languages are for humans; their xml serializations -- for machines. --michael
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