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the original, and even if you do, people will still have sentimental attachments to the others.
So at this point, I would still categorize RDF as an aspiration. It would be nice as a universal publishing format—there’s a lot that cold be done with it—but for day-to-day work, JSON is much better.
That said, RDF is, of course, far, far preferable to XML.