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> Shelley Powers wrote: > > > If people wanted simple and to more easily view the tuples, there was > > NTriples all along. You can't get more basic and more simplified than > > Ntriples. > > *sigh* > > NTriples is a syntax defined by RDF Core for writing test cases last > year. It has not always been around, as you claim. And RDF core does > not recommend the use of NTriples over RDF/XML as an interchange. > > Now, why would a working group see fit to define a entirely new > syntax for tests cases when it alrady had a syntax? This isn't very fair. The reason is that all good syntaxes allow enough flexibility to cause fits in test suites. It is the same reason that good XML processing tests canonicalize the result so as not to trip over such things as quote character selection and attribute order. In general, however, I have been enjoying your posts and Tim Bray's as a more thoughtful criticism of RDF (which is truly far from an ideal technology) than some of the other posts to which I have made uncharitable reply. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p y.html The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/ The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/ Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807 Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html
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