I found the "abandoned" discussion on RDF 1.1 WG wiki: https://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/TF-RDF-XML#Change_8:_named_graph_support_in_RDF-XML
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Martynas Jusevičius <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that someone has thought about this before: > https://www.w3.org/Submission/rdfsource/ > > TriX is just not a natural structure for XSLT transformations. > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 09/06/16 14:47, Martynas Jusevičius wrote: >>> >>> Good points. Yes TriG-like structure makes more sense -- but then it >>> is clearly non-standard. >> >> >> That's a good thing - no risk of wrong data or missing data. >> >> Using an attribute, rdfx:graph - won't it be a property if it is not >> understood as additional syntax attribute? >> >>> >>> Isn't this a gap in RDF standardization -- an XML format for quads? >> >> >> IIRC When it came down to it, no one was interested in spending time on it. >> >> There are (probably) some notes in the RDF 1.1 WG wiki. >> >> TriX is a de facto standard. >> >> Andy >> >> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 08/06/16 15:22, Martynas Jusevičius wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hey, >>>>> >>>>> would it be possible to adopt RDF/XML writer for quads (Dataset)? What >>>>> would that take? >>>>> >>>>> I know it would involve a non-standard syntax, but if we used >>>>> namespaced attributes, XML-compatible tools shouldn't break. >>>>> >>>>> I am thinking it should be possible to add an attribute (e.g. >>>>> rdfx:graph) with graph name on each of the property elements, >>>>> something like this: >>>>> >>>>> <rdf:Description >>>>> rdf:about="https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i";> >>>>> <foaf:givenName >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> rdfx:graph="https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card";>Tim</foaf:givenName> >>>>> <foaf:familyName >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> rdfx:graph=http://data.semanticweb.org/person/tim-berners-lee/rdf"";>Berners-Lee</foaf:familyName> >>>>> </rdf:Description> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> And if a triple is in 2 graphs? The default graph? >>>> >>>>> >>>>> What do you think? Would someone else be interested in such >>>>> serialization? I know there is TriX, but it is not convenient for XSLT >>>>> transformation. >>>>> >>>>> Martynas >>>>> atomgraph.com >>>>> >>>> >>>> An alternative is more TriG like : >>>> >>>> >>>> <rdfx:Graph rdfx:name="..."> >>>> .... RDF/XML here ... >>>> </rdfx:Graph> >> >>
