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== Syntaxes ==
RDF is a [[data model]], not a [[syntax]]. The same data can be represented in a variety of different ways. The primary way is through an XML syntax - although other syntaxes are commonly in use, including the [[Notation3]] and [[Turtle syntax]] which use [[Unicode]] plain text with a variety of symbols to distinguish between different parts of the structure. There is also a wide variety of tools which exist to parse and use RDF data in a variety of common programming languages.

The RDF/XML syntax is formally defined and standardised by the W3C, and is widely implemented.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Syntax name
! MIME type
! Underlying technology
! Standardisation status
|-
| RDF/XML
| <code>application/rdf+xml</code>
| XML
| W3C Recommendation
|-
| N-Triples
| <code>text/plain</code>
| Plain text with Unicode.
| W3C RDF Core WG Internal Working Draft
|-
| Turtle
| <code>application/x-turtle</code>
| Plain text with Unicode. Superset of N-Triples.
| W3C Team Submission
|-
| Notation 3
| <code>text/rdf+n3</code> (proposed)
| Plain text with Unicode. Superset of Turtle.
| W3C Team Submission
|-
| TriG
| <code>application/x-trig</code>
| Plain text with Unicode. Superset of Turtle that adds named graphs support.
| 
|-
| TriX (Triples in XML)
| 
| XML
| Supported by Nokia and HP
|-
| RDF/JSON
| <code>application/json</code>
| JSON
| A number of unofficial specifications
|-
| RDFa
| Same as host language. e.g. <code>text/html</code>, <code>application/xhtml+xml</code>
| HTML and XHTML
| W3C Recommendation for XHTML, HTML5 specification is incomplete.
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