On 15 Jul 2008, at 12:16, Mark Birbeck wrote:
[snip]
Sure. But there is nothing to say that you can't publish large
datasets using XHTML+RDFa, i.e., producing XHTML+RDFa documents that
are primarily intended for consumption by another server, rather than
a web browser.
Publishers might then choose to publish just one document type,
especially when it can be consumed by search engines like
SearchMonkey.
Once people realise this, it will be interesting to see how much the
RDF/XML format is used, going forwards.
[snip]
One funny aspect of RDF/XML, as I understand the history, is that
some of the quirkier aspects of its design stemmed from the goal of
being embedable in HTML (hence all the alternative forms) in a legacy
browser compatible way.
In this sense, RDFa aims to fulfill one of the RDF/XML goals that
helped make it (somewhat) unsuitable to backend work (compare with
NTriples).
If at first you don't succeed, try again 10 years later ;)
Cheers,
Bijan.
