RDFX: An XML Serialization for RDF

RDFX is an experimental alternative serialization for expressing RDF statements which offers the following benefits over the standard RDF/XML serialization:

• The terms used correspond more closely to the RDF conceptual model.
• The syntax can be fully modeled by a DTD or XML Schema, enabling validation of instances irrespective of ontologies/vocabularies used in assertions, and enabling the use of generic XML tools.
• PCDATA only occurs for XML literals, allowing for the embedding of RDFX instances (without XML literals) freely within arbitrary well formed XML, thus not unintentionally affecting displayed content in browsers.
• Support is provided for identification of resources by either URIs or Qualified Names.
• Statements may be qualified for scope or have general comments associated with them; expressed in an efficient manner, and mapped to reifications of all statements in-scope of a particular qualification.
• Common assertions can be made efficiently about multiple subjects by element grouping.

RDFX-1.2.dtd

examples.rdfx