Re: RDF and xml:base

Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> RDF does not interpret all namespaces from the RDF/XML syntax - the
> XML namespaces spec reserves all namespace prefixes starting 'xml'
> for XML use:
[...]
> If any RDF/XML parser does something with the xml:base attribute at
> the RDF level - emitting it as a property say - then that is wrong.

The XML spec says that such names are reserved -- RDF never says that such
names should not be processed. From my reading, only the W3C is able to make
attributes starting with these characters, but I see nothing prevent them
from being processed by RDF.

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