- From: Giovanni Tummarello <giovanni@wup.it>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:37:18 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Ivan Herman wrote: > When I make courses on RDF and RDF/XML, I *always* use the graph > paradigm in the forefront. Ie, if there is a new concept (eg, some OWL > stuff), I always put up a graph *first* and that is what I use to > explain. Then, almost casually, I also show an excerpt of RDF/XML > saying 'if you want to serialize, this is the way it looks'. I have > received quite a lot of positive feedback from people that pushing the > graph, and its visual representation, worked well for them. Once > people grasp it than RDF/XML becomes just a serialization method. Not > pretty, there might be others coming up in the future, but it is > nothing else than syntactic sugar. (Well... sugar might not be the > best word here, maybe 'syntactic salt' is a better term?;-) > > Ivan Given this isnt it a good idea to consider rewriting the RDFprimer to get completely away of the XML ? implications might be far reaching. The less people get scared when facing that document the better. (Albeit is a fairly clear document and a great effort, maybe it could be called RDF/XML primer) Giovanni
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