- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 06:05:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Hi Patrick, On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote: > I have a question that I'm hoping someone with more insight to > the RDF spec than I have can provide. > > My (present and possibly incorrect) understanding of the difference > between the RDF XML '<myproperty>somevalue</myproperty>' and the > condensed variant '<myproperty rdf:value="somevalue"/>' is that these > are only syntactic variants defining precisely the same knowledge I don't believe this to be the case, although I agree the old Model and Syntax spec is a little vague about the role/purpose of rdf:value. Is there a particular section of the spec that gave you this impression? A number of apps that I've seen do use rdf:value and an intermediate resource when they want to associate, for example, data typing or language tagging meta-information with literal values in a way that shows up in the graph. Dan
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