- From: Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 12:04:23 +0000
- To: David Menendez <zednenem@psualum.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
At 02:23 AM 11/5/02 -0500, David Menendez wrote: >[...] My impression of RDF/XML and N3 is that the latter is more readable, >easier to parse, and more compact. No argument... >What advantage would an XML syntax have? - tool support (e.g. DanCs visualization stuff [1] includes an XSLT script). - easy embedding in other XML; e.g. carriage in SOAP, or Joseph Reagle's note on indicating the assurance conveyed by an XML signature [2]. - uniformity of data - application migration - mindshare Whether you find any of these to be compelling is another question. #g -- [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/02pd/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-p3p-profile/ ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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