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Re: CSS syntax for RDF

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: CSS syntax for RDF
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 18:25:30 -0600
• Cc: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Paul Prescod <paul@p...> of "Fri, 06 Jun 2003 18:59:10 PDT." <3EE146EE.4000207@p...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Micah Dubinko wrote:
> > My previous post about a YAML syntax for RDF got me to thinking a bit.
> > 
> > YAML is similar in some ways to the well-known CSS sytnax. I've already
> > played around a bit with a CSS syntax for RDF, or more specifically,
> > N-Triples:
> > 
> > http://dubinko.info/blog/2003_04_13_archive.html#92807249
> >
> > @namespace dc url(http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/)
> > 
> > :root {
> > dc|description: "A discussion of the broader context and relevance of XML/RDF techniques.";
> > dc|creator: "Uche Ogbuji";
> > }
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> Looks like a good start...But you need to do a larger example with named 
> and anonymous nodes, hierarchy etc. But overall, I like the idea. The 
> stuff above is easier on the eyes than ANY of the RSS variants, even the 
> pre-namespaces stuff.

<aol>me too</aol>

Micah, I know you dislike RDF, so I'm not sure why you're doing such a 
service, but I'm grateful you are.  Please keep these ruminations coming.

> Ttoo bad about the colons. The vertical bar is kind of non-intuitive as 
> a prefix separator.

I wonder whether we shouldn't just dithc the whole sordid URI concatenation 
mess for a straightforward aliasing scheme.  Using shell-script sytax, perhaps

:root {
 $(dc)description: "A discussion of the broader context and relevance of 
XML/RDF techniques.";
 $(dc)creator: "Uche Ogbuji";
}

It's a subtle difference, but I think possibly an important one.


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