Re: Announce: java-rdfa 0.4

On 14 Jun 2010, at 17:24, Damian Steer <pldms@mac.com> wrote:

> On 14/06/10 16:05, Toby Inkster wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:26:30 +0100
>> Damian Steer <pldms@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> * (Finally) support overlapping literals. No one noticed this didn't
>>> work!
>>
>> This reminds me. ODF has an interesting construction which can be
>> thought of like this:
>>
>>    <x property="ex:p1">Foo<y property="ex:p2">Bar</x>Baz</y>
>>
>> So you'd get these triples:
>>
>>    <> ex:p1 "FooBar" ;
>>       ex:p2 "BarBaz" .
>>
>> It uses proper XML though, with empty elements to mark the start and
>> end of the literals.
>>
>> Now, those are overlapping literals!
>>
>> I do plan on adding support at some stage...
>>
>
> Dear lord, we need Jeni's advice on this. Creole support in RDFa? [1]
>

Dimly remembering some papers from that sgml/xml conf series, the  
scholarly/thoughtful one, on 'overlapping markup'. Am on an iphone on  
a plane and hence excuse myself from googling...

Dan



> Damian
>
> [1] <http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/taxonomy/term/9>
>

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