- From: Lee Jonas <ljonas@acm.org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:20:35 +0100
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
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 -----Original Message----- From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org [mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of tony_hammond@harcourt.com Sent: 05 April 2002 14:18 To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org 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 ps/ In case you need it: Get the Adobe Plugin <http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/> to view the SVG. To drag image: ALT + <left-mouse-button> and use the cursor to position. To zoom either click on the <right-mouse-button>, or press CTRL to zoom in, CTRL-SHIFT to zoom out.
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