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RDF or XML?
- Q: For a specific application, should I use XML or RDF?
- A: It depends…
- XML's model is
- a tree, ie, a strong hierarchy
- applications may rely on hierarchy position (eg,
liin HTML) - relatively simple syntax and structure
- not easy to combine trees
- RDF's model is
- a loose collections of relations
- applications may do “database”-like search
- not easy to recover hierarchy
- easy to combine relations in one big collection
- great for the integration of heterogeneous information
- XML's model is
| Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices | Beijing, China, 12 November, 2003 | 11 (35) |