> Turtle is just another syntax for RDF because XML is too verbose.... I'm not so sure that alone should be dismissed - html was "just" a simpler docbook. And

> Turtle is just another syntax for RDF because XML is too verbose.... I'm not so sure that alone should be dismissed - html was "just" a simpler docbook. And json too, if you squint, is just a dumbed down xml - in the sense that both represent graph/documents. [ed: and xml was just a simpler sgml]. Both json and html dropped some important features from xml/sgml, but I think the resulting simplicity (both good and bad) had a hand in the success of first the web, and later the "json-rest" web 2.0. (I have a hard time calling it REST as it retains quite few of the benefits of rests, and modern SPAs aren't really REST at all, but rather "move able code" - more architecturally like office documents with rich macros than REST).