- From: Jeff Sussna <jeff.sussna@quokka.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:29:56 -0800
- To: "'Sergey Melnik'" <melnik@db.stanford.edu>, David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- Cc: xml-dev@xml.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Fabulous! This syntax would address my foremost complaint with RDF: the model is property-centric but the syntax really isn't. The "canonical" description format is really a shortcut of its own, and one that obscures the basic property-centric quality of RDF. Sergey's proposed syntax is (IMHO) just what the doctor ordered. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Sergey Melnik [mailto:melnik@db.stanford.edu] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 9:21 AM To: David Megginson Cc: xml-dev@xml.org; www-rdf-interest@w3.org Subject: Re: SV: A certain difficulty - lack of action! [ snip ] As a next step I'd like to have a "poorest man" RDF/XML serialization: <rdf> <triple subject="[URI]" predicate="[URI]" object="[URI]"/> <triple subject="[URI]" predicate="[URI]">[PDCATA]</triple> ... </rdf> This serialization is unambiguous, self-explaining, and can be implemented using 10 lines of code. It would provide a good reference point for determining what features in the current RDF/XML serialization are syntactic sugar (e.g. aboutEach) or bugs (i.e. not reflected in the model like xml:lang, aboutEachPrefix etc.) [ snip ]
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