Jure Sah wrote:

> You're asking me to use a Java library? Hmm, right, I think I understand
> why all my friends hate XML now...

XML has processing tools in almost any language. RDF is a couple of
years newer and has been developed by fewer people, so there are as yet
fewer language bindings for it. If you want one, write one.

The popular stuff is in Java, This is because:

!.  All the cool kids were using Java

2.  Jena is in Java.

3. Protege is in Java.

As Java works, is popular, and the two favourite RDF tools are using
it, then why move away ?   If you use Redland instead of Jena then
you've access from C++ or Python. You're welcome to use anything else
you fancy, it's just that the rest of us are already happily sat in one
corner.


> Not to mention, it really doesn't answer my question. I don't use "XML
> tools", document or otherwise, unless you count VI as one.

If you insist on only seeing the world as a linear text document
through a fairly crude character-based editor, then you're never going
to get very far managing triples. Things are harder now, user
interfaces are fatter. If we're going to work with this world, then
we're going to need fatter tools. Download a copy of Protege and have a
play with some of the newer plugins for that.

> You could have just summed up your entire post into "RTFM" then.

Really I wish I had.