Well, the advantage of RDF is that it's a standard :)
https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-primer/

The downside is that its XML-based format (RDF/XML) is rather convoluted.

But you don't need to write RDF/XML by hand - you can use Jena's CLI to
transform from a more human-readable Turtle format to RDF/XML.

Or heck, I think you could give your names/values data to an LLM and ask it
to produce an RDF equivalent :)

On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 3:05b/PM Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Martynas.
>   The simplicity (and coverage) of Jakobs was ( for me) its advantage?
>   Two simple lists
> <names/>
> <values/>
>   with a whole host of variants.
>   Not the same 'graphs' as RDF?
>
> regards
>
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 at 13:56, Martynas JuseviD
ius martynas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hey Dave,
>>
>> Not a direct replacement, but FWIW I have a stylesheet that transforms
>> RDF graphs (via the RDF/XML format) to force-directed SVG layouts:
>>
>>
https://github.com/AtomGraph/Web-Client/blob/master/src/main/webapp/static/co
m/atomgraph/client/xsl/converters/RDFXML2SVG.xsl
>>
>> The RDF/XML structure might be specific to "normalised" Jena's RDF/XML
>> output (can't exactly recall now).
>> https://jena.apache.org/documentation/tools/#riot-and-related
>>
>> Martynas
>> atomgraph.com
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 2:48b/PM Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx <
>> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> A long time ago...
>>>   Jakob wrote some code, now resident (rotting?)
>>> on Google code.
>>> https://code.google.com/archive/p/graph2svg/downloads
>>>
>>> At the time he use fxsl and exsl for the math(s).
>>>
>>> IMHO this is well worth bringing up to date.
>>> I asked Jakob and received no reply.
>>>
>>> Saxon math 'extension' only lacks abs,  from
>>> my early trials?
>>>
>>> If anyone with a mathematical bent has time
>>> to do the xslt world a favour, I would certainly
>>> appreciate it.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
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