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Issue http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/Overview.html#rdf-containers-syntax-ambiguity

From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:21:56 +0100
To: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <14053.988021316@tatooine.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> 

I ask the RDF Core WG consider the proposal for this issue
based on the document written by Brian McBride and myself:

  A Proposed Interpretation of RDF Containers
  http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/bwm/rdf/issues/containersyntax/current.htm

where we make several proposals:

  1. remove the ambiguity by making the container productions
     part of the typedNode (6.13) production
  2. make rdf:li legal wherever propName (6.14) can be used
  3. describe rules for processing rdf:li into specific enumerated
     rdf:_<n> properties
  4. give a description of the interaction with rdf:aboutEach

although #4 may need to be deferred dependent on what, if anything is
done with rdf:aboutEach.

The above have no or minimal impact on existing deployed RDF or
parsers, and actually make the grammar more regular for parsing.

Dave
Received on Monday, 23 April 2001 06:21:59 EDT

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