Re: [xml-dev] XML vs JSON

[Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net>]

On 8/21/2017 10:44 AM, Kurt Cagle wrote:
> Tom,
>
> You don't NEED RDF but it can be a useful tool nonetheless.
Well, sure, I'm not saying otherwise, but there are lots of conventions 
(you can regard RDF-XML as a convention!)  that do things that *can* be 
done with plain XML.

TomP

> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net
> <mailto:list1@tompassin.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 8/21/2017 2:22 AM, Ghislain Fourny wrote:
>
>         I agree with this statement, but I would add that it is very
>         important to distinguish between the core data models of XML
>         (infoset, PSVI, XDM) and other data models it is able to support
>         indirectly.
>
>         XML primarily -- natively -- has a tree-based data model.
>
>         It can store graphs, but doing so requires an extra data model such
>         as RDF or XBRL linkbases (which massively use XLink), and such data
>         models are not specifically bound or restricted to XML syntax.
>
>
>     ID/IDREF can be used for graphs... a native facility.  You don't
>     really need RDF, etc.
>
>     TomP