From XML to RDF step by step: approaches for leveraging XML workflows with linked data

There have been many discussions about benefits and drawbacks of XML vs. RDF. In practice more and more XML and linked data technologies are being used together. This leads to opportunities and uncertainties: for years companies have invested heavily in XML workflows. They are not willing to throw them away for the benefits of linked data. This paper aims to start a discussion on approaches for integrating XML and RDF workflows. This should help the incremental adoption of linked data, without the need to throw away XML tooling and to start content processing from scratch.