Re: Using entities [was Re: RDFX: My "vision" for an RDF/XML serialization, for both assertions and queries (RDF 2.0)? ] from Sampo Syreeni on 2002-06-22 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from June 2002)

From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:42:36 +0300 (EEST)
To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
cc: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0206221640470.23266-100000@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

><!ENTITY rdf  "rdf:">
>
><rdfx xmlns:rdf ="&rdf;"
>
>What's so nasty about this?  It's a pattern I've been using for a while,
>and I think it really helps readability.

Plus conciseness. WordNet RDF dumps seem to be doing the same sort of
thing, I think wisely.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111
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