Dave Beckett pointed to Regular XML RDF, which he presented at XML Europe 2004. With a nod to Turtle short-hand and to the RDF/XML Syntax Spec, he illustrated a clearer and more verbose expression of subject-predicate-object statements in XML.

There is quite a gap between RDF the system and RDF the format. Call me slow or just plain new to this, but it takes a bit of a mental flip to transform one into the other. Mr. Beckett's approach allows the programmer to understand both the intent of the RDF system as well as the meaning of the information at hand.

<graph xmlns="http://ilrt.org/discovery/2004/03/rxr/">
  <triple>
    <subject uri="http://purl.org/net/dajobe/"/>
    <predicate uri="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator"/>
    <object>Dave Beckett</object>
  </triple>
</graph>