Article:		Of Presidents and Ontologies
Subject:		Showing XML is misleading
Date:		2004-11-05 05:10:24
From:		Paul Ford
Response to: Showing XML is misleading
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.

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