Fundamentals of the Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse - slide "XML Versus RDF: Summary (1)"

XML	RDF
Meaning is context-dependent & often implicit: Element & attribute contents Element & attribute names Ordering (sequence) of elements Hierarchical (subtree nesting) structure	Meaning is explicit & independent of context
Implicit meaning is not "clickable". (Is it documented at all?)	URIs are easily clickable
Atomic terms are QNames: (Namespace, LocalName) pairs May be ambiguous	Atomic terms are URIs Easier to manipulate More clickable