@whitequark Oh, writing RDF-XML is *horrible*. I strongly recommend Turtle (or TriG, if you need named graphs).
Or N-Triples, if you want to do bulk operations with line-based text tools. You can do a lot with N-Triples and grep and sed...
@darkling that looks at least as upsetting to the senses as the raw RDF-XML
@whitequark It's much more compact and a lot more readable, I find. When I'm hand-wrangling RDF, it's my preferred format.
Turtle, N-Triples, RDF-XML, JSON-LD, in that order. JSON-LD is the work of the devil.
@whitequark @darkling I attended a DARPA Semantic Web conference back in 2003 at which I saw Tim Berners-Lee give a presentation about some CLI tool for working with one of these triple formats. I thought all of that stuff fell out of use after the Semantic Web hype died out.
@tedmielczarek @whitequark I was using semweb stuff in my last job. It was specifically why they hired me, as I started using RDF and friends slightly before that talk you attended. :)