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> Micah Dubinko wrote:
> > My previous post about a YAML syntax for RDF got me to thinking a bit.
> >
> > YAML is similar in some ways to the well-known CSS sytnax. I've already
> > played around a bit with a CSS syntax for RDF, or more specifically,
> > N-Triples:
> >
> > http://dubinko.info/blog/2003_04_13_archive.html#92807249
> >
> > @namespace dc url(http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/)
> >
> > :root {
> > dc|description: "A discussion of the broader context and relevance of XML/RDF techniques.";
> > dc|creator: "Uche Ogbuji";
> > }
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Looks like a good start...But you need to do a larger example with named
> and anonymous nodes, hierarchy etc. But overall, I like the idea. The
> stuff above is easier on the eyes than ANY of the RSS variants, even the
> pre-namespaces stuff.
<aol>me too</aol>
Micah, I know you dislike RDF, so I'm not sure why you're doing such a
service, but I'm grateful you are. Please keep these ruminations coming.
> Ttoo bad about the colons. The vertical bar is kind of non-intuitive as
> a prefix separator.
I wonder whether we shouldn't just dithc the whole sordid URI concatenation
mess for a straightforward aliasing scheme. Using shell-script sytax, perhaps
:root {
$(dc)description: "A discussion of the broader context and relevance of
XML/RDF techniques.";
$(dc)creator: "Uche Ogbuji";
}
It's a subtle difference, but I think possibly an important one.
--
Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com
Using libxml in Python - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/14/py-xml.html
Charming Jython - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jython.h
tml
The commons of creativity - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x
-think18.html
Is XQuery an omni-tool? - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7620
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