Re: one thing to agitate for at the RDF meeting

From: Jeff Heflin (heflin@cs.umd.edu)
Date: 02/22/01

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I agree, the lack of the ability to use namespaces in attribute names
makes RDF syntax look exceedingly unelegant. A possible solution would
be to define a namespace protocol ns, so that you could have URIs like:

ns:daml//Thing

Jeff

"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I would like for one the points that are brought up at the RDF meeting
> next week to be that XML namespaces can be used in resource names.  It is
> exceedingly silly to state a bunch of namespace definitions only to have to
> revert to the long name in most places.
> 
> peter

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