- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:10:20 -0600
- To: "Hart, Lewis" <lhart@grci.com>, RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Hart, Lewis <lhart@grci.com> wrote: > The XML Namespace specification states that "default namespaces do not apply > directly to attributes". What does that mean? Does it mean that this: > > <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org"> > <Publisher>World Wide Web Consortium</Publisher> > <Title>W3C Home Page</Title> > <Date>1998-10-03T02:27</Date> > </rdf:Description> > > is NOT equivalent to this: > > <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org"> > Publisher="World Wide Web Consortium" > Title="W3C Home Page" > Date="1998-10-03T02:27"/> Yes, it does. In the second example, no triples should result. > If not, why not? I don't know the exact reasoning, but I've gathered that there were applications that required this to work this way. Perhaps someone with more history than I can explain what those were. -- [ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]
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