RE: QNames for Better Visuals?

The idea of QNames in attribute values is not a new one, see [1].

It would help to address something that has niggled me for some time: the
verboseness of RDF (and XML in general).  However, it is not part of RDF M&S
1.0 and the RDF Core WG don't consider it in scope, so I doubt it will get
addressed in the near future :-(

[1] http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-qnames-as-attrib-values

regards

Lee Jonas

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Subject: QNames for Better Visuals?



Hi:

I wondered what people think of using QNames for properties in (especially)
SVG graphics and tucking away the URIs into XLinks. See:

     http://www2.elsevier.co.uk/~tony/cookbook/

Resource URIs are also truncated (but linked), as are literals. This allows
for more detail to be compressed into a single screen shot. As an example
the "Extended Article" SVG is much easier to read than if it had been
decorated with full-blown URIs. Would be neat if some of the other
GraphViz-based tools (Validator, IsaViz, etc) supported an option to render
in this more compressed form. Seems to me that the property URIs are not of
primary interest to the *human* reader but instead deflect attention from
the main subject matter.

Tony


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