- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:38:07 -0500 (EST)
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- cc: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dave Beckett wrote: > >>>David Megginson said: > > Dave Beckett writes: > > > > > I feel it might be needed for serialisation of the RDF graph to > > > RDF/XML, but I haven't implemented that yet. > > > > Unfortunately, the serialization of an RDF graph is impossible in the > > general case: the XML Namespaces spec describes two-part names, but > > RDF treats them as single part names, and the act of combining the two > > is lossy. ... > > I appreciated this, which is why in Redland I'll probably start > recording namespace URIs/prefixes in the RDF model just for > re-serialisation purposes something like > > [model URI] -> [redland:hasXMLnsPrefix] -> "xmlns:foo=http://foo.com/ns"] Maybe we could agree to use eg dc:title or rdfs:label for this, to express preferred namespace prefixes of a vocabualry? dan
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