RDF, XML & interoperability

• Why isn’t XML enough?
  • simple statement could be expressed in XML in many different ways
  • human reader makes interpretation/guess
  • application program requires prior knowledge of schema/DTD design
• RDF/XML
  • imposes extra syntactic constraints on how statement expressed
  • both human and program can interpret description consistently
• Less flexibility, greater interoperability

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