Re: RDF syntax 'improvements'? - was RE: [Fwd: xmlns, uri+name pairs or just uris..? Clarification needed.]

Lee,

If you look back at the archives, you'll see a long series of messages about
simplifying the RDF syntax.  The most radical proposal was to reduce the RDF
serialization to simple statements, like:

<srdf:Statement prop="title" res="...URI">Literal Value</srdf:Statement>
<srdf:Statement prop="creator" value="#id001" res="...URI"/>
<srdf:Statement prop="rdf:_1" res="id001">Author 1</srdf:Statement>
<srdf:Statement prop="rdf:_2" res="id001">Author 2</srdf:Statement>
<srdf:Statement prop="rdf:type" value="rdf:Bag" res="id001"/>

etc.  There were several other proposals, including one from Tim
Berners-Lee.

The silence may be a way of saying, "Been there, done that." :-)

Perry