Jeremy Carroll and Patrick Stickler recently dropped a teaser on www-rdf-interest about Triples XML (TriX), an experimental XML format for RDF triples. Rather than contribute to the general brain farting on the list as Derek (my developer) and I are busy painting the caravan in preparation for 'Dr Ont's Foo Camp', we whipped up a 15 minute XSLT and enabled TriX on SchemaWeb.

Vapourware is now reality and TriX feeds of RDF schemas are available for perusal and experimentation on all schema details pages. This is due in part to TriX's close mapping with TriplesML, SchemaWeb's own format for XML based delivery of RDF triples and the underlying format used by the VicSoft.Rdf parser.

A thought for all the RDF/XML purists out there who seem to abhor any alternative to 'that syntax'. The meat in the model and not how it is represented and serialised. And why can't we wrap our RDF in XML rather than wrap our XML in RDF?