- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:00:27 +0100
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> > > Well, then, doesn't RDF/XML treat the XML namespace specially? > > > > Er, no. XML does. > > How can RDF/XML build on the XML infoset, which treates the XML namespace > specially, and not treat the XML namespace specially? Does it somehow > undo the special treatment accorded to the XML namespace by XML? That's the point that those of us who've pointed out that it is XML, and not RDF/XML, that treats the XML namespace specially were making. Because XML treats the XML namespace specially RDF/XML *can't* undo this and must also treat it specially, hence you don't get any triples generated with http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacelang, http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacespace or http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacebase as the predicate. XML does not treat the XSI namespace specially, so therefore if parsing RDF/XML were to similarly not attempt to generate triples for attributes from that namespace then that *would* need to be a special rule in RDF/XML.
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