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

On 2002-06-22 16:42, "ext Sampo Syreeni" <decoy@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> 
>> <!ENTITY rdf  "rdf:">
>> 
>> <rdfx xmlns:rdf ="&rdf;"
>> 
>> What's so nasty about this?  It's a pattern I've been using for a while,
>> and I think it really helps readability.
> 
> Plus conciseness. WordNet RDF dumps seem to be doing the same sort of
> thing, I think wisely.

Well, the ENTITY declaration actually should be

  <!ENTITY rdf "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
 
but it was a snapshot of a work in progress, hence the semi-bogus
namespace prefixes.

Cheers,

Patrick

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