SirPac doesnt like the use of bracket ( )

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 23:35:28 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <3A56A07E.283B1CD9@ergonomia.com>
From: Yan Bodain <ybodain@ergonomia.com>
To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org

SirPac doesnt like the use of  bracket ( ) in the name of element 

For example: 

   <a:Author(s) rdf:resource="&a;something"/> 

will fail with this error message: 

Could not parse/serialize: java.lang.Exception: SiRPAC Parser error: Fatal
Error: expected '"' or "'" (found "r") (line <a href="#158">158</a>, column
15)Unresolved namespace prefix df 

java.lang.Exception: SiRPAC Parser error: Fatal Error: expected '"' or "'"
(found "r") (line <a href="#158">158</a>, column 15)Unresolved namespace
prefix
df 
  

Thanks. 

Yan Bodain 
Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal