On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 05:38:15PM +0000, carmen wrote: > On Sun Jul 16, 2006 at 07:35:19PM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 17:28 +0000, carmen wrote: > > > i notice this file: http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2.ttl is in the nicely > > > readable > > > turtle format. my main question is, whether this will be transformed to > > > RDF-XML > > > during 'make install' or perhaps by the developer themselves (Eg, similar > > > to > > > leaving a configure script around for those who dont have autoconf). > > > > I hope not - I've already written a host that parses Turtle and only > > Turtle. > > you hope not what? it just seems like Turtle should be developers choice, and > the format in the .bundle should be more standard - even Firefox can parse > RDF/XML out of the box. the vast majority of the cool tools like > Fresnel/Protoge that some develoeprs might want to edit their schemas in, > don't support Turtle as well, AFAIK..
I've never heard of Fresnel, but Protege can read N3, which is a superset of Turtle. There's some pretty strong anti-XML feeling in this community, and Turtle was less contraversial all round. Personally I prefer reading and writing Turtle to RDF/XML, which is pretty hideous. If your tool of choice can't read Turtle directly, just use something like rapper to turn it into RDF/XML first. - Steve
