Re: iana mime types as rdfs:Datatype ?

Monday, June 26, 2006, 11:28:03 PM, Henry Story wrote:

>> Does Atom allow parameters in its @type attribute?

> I don't think so: see paragraph 4.1.3.1

> "but MUST NOT be a composite type"

That's not what "composite type" means. Composite type is defined in
RFC 2045 as "message/*" or "multipart/*". (I have no idea why types
such as message/rfc-822 were banned in Atom).


>> How should RDF vocabularies refer to mime types that include
>> parameters?
>>
>> It is all a bit vague, I find it easiest just to model the mime type
>> as a Literal property.

> agreed for non TEXT relations. Text relations can clearly be  
> immediately converted to Literals,

I was referring to the mimetype property itself, not the content.


-- 
Dave

Received on Monday, 26 June 2006 23:06:27 UTC