On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 08:33:08 -0400, Dave Robillard 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). > > > > mainly beacuse, it seems RDF-XML is the dominant serialization format, and > > having this additional dependency stand in the way means, at the very least > > one can't use Pyrple out of the box. i installed Redland and the Ruby and > > TCL bindings, and both conspicuously left out the "Redland::Parser.turtle" > > method, presumably beacuse i dont have it installed (and it's not in > > portage...) > > > > cheers > > Why would you want to take a nice, readable format, and translate it > into the confusing bloated mess that is RDF/XML automatically and by > default? Because some particular toolkit can't read N3/Turtle yet? > Silly. > > If the toolkit you want to use sucks, then you can convert the N3/Turtle > to RDF/XML yourself easily enough...
To be fair, Turtle is relativly new, whereas RDF/XML is about 10 years old. There are some tools that don't yet handle Turtle. I agree about the conversion though. Turtle is much more popular in these parts, and the conversion is easily done either way. - Steve
