- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 06:50:09 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- cc: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Michael Kifer wrote: > 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. I suggested this some time back, but concluded it wasn't good for serializing anon / bNodes without inventing a bunch of extra stuff. Nice idea though. Dan
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