Re: Dispositions of Dave Beckett's comments

Ron Daniel <rdaniel@interwoven.com> wrote:

>> 4.8.3
>>   Note that although a sequence of <dc:creator> elements in an
>>   RDF/XML file implicitly defines a sequence (in the XML world), RDF
>>   parsers have no obligation to preserve that ordering, unlike in an
>>   rdf:Seq.  So the PRISM RDF profile requires that the ordering be
>>   preseved.
> 
> Yes, good catch. I have added that suggestion to the profile.
> 
> (Now I will have to add some stuff to my implementation to
> keep track of that ordering.)

Wait a sec... Are you explicitly adding something to PRISM that will make it
incompatible will the rest of the RDF world? I may not understand the
comment, and apologize if this is the case, but if I read it correctly,
PRISM files using this special addition will be essentially unusable with a
generic RDF processor. This would be a Bad Thing.

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