EARL - slide "Why RDF instead of XML?"

Use the RDF model, but syntax agnostic
(most of our examples use N3, but RDF will work as well - as long as the model is kept)
The XML model is a tree. Relationships in trees are only based on position: child, parent, sibling, anscestor, descendant.
The RDF model is a directed line graph. Relationships are between two resources and can have any type of relationship:
- Resource1 <is an editor of> Resource2.
- Resource3 <conforms to> Resource2.
- Resource1 = Ian Jacobs
- Resource2 = UAAG 1.0
- Resource3 = Opera version 5.2 for Windows 9x
The RDF model is therefore a semantic model. XML does not provide semantics.