- From: Peter Mika <pmika@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 19:27:20 +0200
Just a quick comment on:
it uses prefixes, which most authors simply do not understand, and
which many implementors end up getting wrong (e.g. SearchMonkey
hard-coded certain prefixes in its first implementation, Google's
handling of RDF blocks for license declarations is all done with
Actually, the problem we see is not so much the prefixes themselves but
rather the cumbersome way of specifying namespace prefix definitions
using xmlns. So I think it would make sense to have some mechanism for
referencing bundles of namespace prefixes ('profiles') or namespace
registries, in order to easy authoring.
In terms of prefixes, I find that 'com.foaf-project.name' is a lot more
difficult to write than 'foaf:name'. Reverse domain names are
non-intuitive for non-programmer types (or non-Java programmers).
Cheers,
Peter
Received on Tuesday, 12 May 2009 10:27:20 UTC