On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:10 +0100, Nathan wrote:
> In all honesty, if this doesn't happen, I personally will have no choice
> but to move to N3 for the bulk of things, and hope for other
> serializations of N3 to come along.
RIF (which became a W3C Recommendation last week) is N3, mutated (in
some good ways and some bad ways, I suppose) by the community consensus
process. RIF is simultaneously the heir to N3 and a standard business
rules format.
RIF's central syntax is XML-based, but there's room for a presentation
syntax that looks like N3. RIF includes triples which can have
literals as subject, of course. (In RIF, these triples are called
"frames". Well, sets of triples with a shared subject are called
frames, technically. But they are defined by the spec to be an
extension of RDF triples.)
-- Sandro
