xml-dev - Re: Short Essay: Squeezing RDF into a Java Object Model

[Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>]

"Roger L. Costello" wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> I see where you are going with this - develop an API for RDF.  Out of
> curiosity, why isn't the SAX API adequate?  After all, RDF is just XML.
> Let the application deal with it.  /Roger

RDF has its own data model *expressed in* XML. In the same way, XML has a
data model expressed in Unicode. One could ask: "Why do we need an XML API
when every programming language has a character reading API." But the XML
data model is not the Unicode data model.

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