- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:08:20 +0100
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Cc: Gavin Carothers <gavin@carothers.name>, "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, W3C RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
On Nov 16, 2011, at 15:51 , Steve Harris wrote: > On 2011-11-16, at 08:11, Ivan Herman wrote: > ... >> Sigh. You do have good arguments, although at present it is a pain to repeat all the prefix declarations. Ie, there would be no really smooth ways of using both turtle and RDFa in the same page, although I do see very legitimate usage for this (that is why I like it!). It has happened several times to me that the RDF I wanted to generate from an HTML file included a bunch of statements that are really not for display (this does happen with more complex vocabularies) and the current trick is to use a <div style="display:none> for this, and then encode things in a series of <span> which then resembles RDF/XML:-). Adding turtle in HTML is a very elegant way of solving this issue... >> >> Ie: I am torn! > > That solution is fine for you, as you know both RDFa and Turtle, but expecting/suggesting/making it easy for people to use two different RDF syntaxes *in the same document* seems crazy to me. > > It's hard enough to explain RDF the multitude of syntaxes as it is, without suggesting that people use two at once. > > <div style="display:none"> is a bit ugly, but at least it's well understood web web developers. Ok, I take your point. So I am fine withdrawing the @prefix stuff. I am still not sure about @base Ivan > > - Steve > > -- > Steve Harris, CTO, Garlik Limited > 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK > +44 20 8439 8203 http://www.garlik.com/ > Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 > Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD > > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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