- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:29:28 +0200
- To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q? "ext_Bill_de_h=D3ra" ?= <dehora@eircom.net>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
FYI... Jeremy Carroll and I have been working on exactly such a minimal RDF serialization which is more XML tools friendly (particularly XSLT and XQuery). c.f. http://sw.nokia.com/trix/ Patrick On Mar 18, 2004, at 12:41, ext Bill de hÓra wrote: > > > Chris Lilley wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 18, 2004, 6:01:14 AM, Tim wrote: TB> I've on a >> number of occasions >> TB> proposed a brutally minimalit XML syntax for RDf with only three >> TB> elements: resource, property, and value. >> Although XML can be used for 'database dump' structures where all the >> children of the root are identical. So >> RDF >> triple >> resource >> property >> value >> triple >> resource >> property >> value >> Four elements, entirely regular. > > IME, 5 are what's needed: > > RDF > graph + > triple * > resource > property > value > > plus some variants for the value (uri, raw xml, typed, etc). In other > words, almost everything needed from an XML serialization of RDF can > be expressed in a screenful of RNC. It's quite frustrating the W3C > haven't sanctioned something like this by now. > > cheers > Bill de hÓra > > -- Patrick Stickler Nokia, Finland patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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