Hello Dave, I do not believe that using custom XML entities in RDF/XML is very common - or at least I havn't seen it for a long time.
I am also unaware of anything in libraptor to allow you to do this. If it is of any help, Turtle is a lot more concise than RDF/XML. nick. On 16 Jun 2011, at 14:00, David Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to get my RDF to be as little bloated as possible. One way > of doing this is by setting namespaces on the RDF serializer. But the > XML namespace spec only covers XML elements and XML attribute names. > It does not cover XML attribute values. That is, you can't use a > qname in a context such as: > > <element attname="prefix:localname" /> > > However, I've come across XML documents (in particular, OWL > ontologies) which have the following: > > <element attname="&prefix;localname" /> > > Instead of the prefix being defined with a namespace declaration it's > defined with an entity declaration in the document's DOCTYPE. > > My question is: Is there any way of getting a librdf serializer to > generate RDF with this sort of abbreviated attribute values? > > Thanks in advance! > > -Dave Phillips > _______________________________________________ > redland-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.librdf.org/mailman/listinfo/redland-dev _______________________________________________ redland-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.librdf.org/mailman/listinfo/redland-dev
