Article:		Of Presidents and Ontologies
Subject:		Showing XML is misleading
Date:		2004-11-05 04:54:58
From:		giovannitummarello
RDF doesnt have anything to do with XML. Showing it as XML is plain misleading, is bad pubblicity. RDF/XML syntax is highly unreadable.. RDF is a GRAPH is should be shown as such (yes i know, rdf visualizers are that great but..) or in simpler non XML notations.

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• Showing XML is misleading
  2004-11-06 08:04:38 bblfish [Reply]
  
  It is weird that you should say that RDF is difficult. The example chosen above, and the way it has been serialised in XML shows exactly the opposite. A good XML serialisation of RDF is nearly indistinguishable from normal run of the mill XML -- so it seems to me anyways.
  
  

• Showing XML is misleading
  2004-11-05 05:10:24 Paul Ford [Reply]
  
  I agree that the XML serialization is more complex than other notations and less than ideal, but I don't think using it is misleading. While it's true that RDF != XML, this is XML.com, not RDF.com, and the readers are used to thinking in XML. Also, much of what is being discussed in the series relates to converting XML and HTML into RDF, using XSLT to generate the RDF. In those cases, it is much simpler to output the XML serialization of RDF from our conversion routines than any alternate notation. Finally, when the information is released to the world for download, it will be in the XML serialization of RDF.