Hi John,
I can appreciate the value of RDF/XML for certain processing tasks, and
I'm okay with keeping RDF/XML alive as a *processing* format. My
suggestion to deprecate RDF/XML was intended to apply to its use as a
*publishing* format.
Thanks,
David Booth
On 09/03/2015 03:52 PM, John Walker wrote:
Hi Martynas,
Indeed abandoning XML based serialisations would be foolish IMHO.
Both RDF/XML and TriX can be extremely useful in certain circumstances.
John
On 3 Sep 2015, at 19:53, Martynas Jusevičius <marty...@graphity.org> wrote:
With due respect, I think it would be foolish to burn the bridges to
XML. The XML standards and infrastructure are very well developed,
much more so than JSON-LD's. We use XSLT extensively on RDF/XML.
Martynas
graphityhq.com
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:03 PM, David Booth <da...@dbooth.org> wrote:
Side note: RDF/XML was the first RDF serialization standardized, over 15
years ago, at a time when XML was all the buzz. Since then other
serializations have been standardized that are far more human friendly to
read and write, and easier for programmers to use, such as Turtle and
JSON-LD.
However, even beyond ease of use, one of the biggest problems with RDF/XML
that I and others have seen over the years is that it misleads people into
thinking that RDF is a dialect of XML, and it is not. I'm sure this
misconception was reinforced by the unfortunate depiction of XML in the
foundation of the (now infamous) semantic web layer cake of 2001, which in
hindsight is just plain wrong:
http://www.w3.org/2001/09/06-ecdl/slide17-0.html
(Admittedly JSON-LD may run a similar risk, but I think that risk is
mitigated now by the fact that RDF is already more established in its own
right.)
I encourage all RDF publishers to use one of the other standard RDF formats
such as Turtle or JSON-LD. All commonly used RDF tools now support Turtle,
and many or most already support JSON-LD.
RDF/XML is not officially deprecated, but I personally hope that in the next
round of RDF updates, we will quietly thank RDF/XML for its faithful service
and mark it as deprecated.
David Booth
