Using entities [was Re: RDFX: My "vision" for an RDF/XML serialization, for both assertions and queries (RDF 2.0)? ]

Patrick,

In examples.rdfx, you have:

"""
<!DOCTYPE rdfx [
<!ENTITY rdfx "voc://nokia.com/rdfx-1/">
<!ENTITY rdf  "rdf:">
<!ENTITY rdfs "rdf:">
<!ENTITY xsd  "xsd:"> 
<!ENTITY dc   "dc:"> 
<!ENTITY foaf "foaf:"> 
<!ENTITY ex   "ex:"> 

<!--   Please forgive the nasty abbreviated namespace URIs  ;-)   -->

]>

<rdfx xmlns:rdf  ="&rdf;"
      xmlns:rdfs ="&rdfs;"
      xmlns:xsd  ="&xsd;"
      xmlns:dc   ="&dc;"
      xmlns:foaf ="&foaf;"
      xmlns:ex   ="&ex;"
      xmlns      ="&rdfx;">
"""

What's so nasty about this?  It's a pattern I've been using for a while, and I 
think it really helps readability.


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