RE: UPDATE: why RDF syntax is not suitable for OWL

> I don't think the real issue has anything much 
> to do with triples; and since so many people like triples, then why 
> not let 'em use 'em, I would suggest.

> Pat Hayes

I think it is a mistake to think 'so many people like triples'.  Maybe
within the RDF community.  But I presume one of our goals is to create a
standard that is adopted by a much wider community.  I would assert that the
wider community is  using XML syntax.  They are writing and using tools that
process XML.

I will ask this question again: Where does the RDF standard say that its
syntax is defined by triples?  Where is the formal triple syntax for RDF?
All I have seen is an XML syntax.  What documents have I not read?

It would be perfectly reasonable to define a translation from XML to triples
in support of existing tools.  Or for those people who like to read assembly
code.

- Mike

Michael K. Smith
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Received on Friday, 15 February 2002 11:43:38 UTC