Much effort has been spent on explaining the differences between RDF and other XML data. Although there clearly are differences, it is possible to mix the flexibility and rich modelling capacity of RDF with the easy processing of generic XML.

In the course of investigating the use of Xforms for editing RDF information, the author was involved in a legal case requiring management of information from 4 countries in 3 languages. The technology turned out to be appropriate to the task, enabling a simple specialised system to be built from common components quickly and easily.

This paper will look at some of the ideas and issues implied by mixing the two technologies, including:

+ how difficult is authoring and managing content

+ what is the benefit of using each of RDF and XML, and why try to bring them together?

+ what is the current state of the technology - can a beginner do this?

+ does this work for internationalised content?

+ can it look cool?