I agree with Kevin. XML may be verbose, but there are lots of tools for processing it, virtually none for N3.

For example, if I harvest RDF by resolving a LSID, I can use XPath to extract the bits I'm interested in, and programming languages such as PHP support this out of the box. Likewise for providers, there are tools that ensure the XML being output is valid.

Personally, if you're looking for an alternative to XML, N3 isn't the answer (that'd be JSON).

Regards

Rod

On 24 Jan 2010, at 02:25, Kevin Richards wrote:

I like the sound of the 'compactness' of the format, but I worry that there is a lack of tools that support the format (ie browsers, mainly). It is quite nice to naturally navigate the rdf world with a standard browser.  But for transfer standards, I suppose this wouldn't matter.

Kevin

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Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 12:08 PM
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Let's make N3 be the recommended RDF representation. It is way more
compact and human readable than RDF/XML.  We could even specify a
normative conversion tool if necessary.


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