RE: parseType="literal"

Thanks Jeremy, I can't remember seeing the xml schema usage before.

It strikes me as having a great deal of potential for misinterpretation -
pity the poor parsers...

Speaking of which - Snail's wonderful!

Cheers,
Danny.

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Danny Ayers
<stuff> http://www.isacat.net </stuff>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org
>[mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Jeremy Carroll
>Sent: 12 March 2002 10:46
>To: Danny Ayers; tarod@softhome.net
>Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
>Subject: RE: parseType="literal"
>
>
>
>Danny:
>>
>> The rest of the material posted makes sense to me, but I have
>trouble with
>> the example below - by any (current) reckoning, surely "q:name" is just a
>> literal string itself here (nothing can cross the quote
>> threshold), and has
>> no connection whatsoever to the earlier xmlns:q=... (without making a
>> significant revision of the XML spec)??
>>
>[ example at end ]
>
>You'd have thought so.
>
>But ... XML Schema allows qnames in attribute values e.g.
>xsi:type="xsd:decimal" where the xsd is a namespace prefix and
>must be bound
>to the appropriate URI. XSLT allows XPath expressions in attribute values,
>these again use namespace prefixes as prefixes - i.e. they must be bound to
>the right URI.
>
>An example in the XSLT I wrote in the RDF Core posting is from extract.xsl:
>[...snip...]
>
><xsl:template match="*[@rdf:parseType='Literal']"
>    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" mode="copy"/>
></xsl:template>
>
>[...snip...]
>To match an element with an rdf:parseType="Literal" attribute namespace use
>within attribute values is required.
>
>A way RDF/XML could go is to simply not support (allow) namespace prefixes
>within attribute values within xml literals within RDF! I think
>currently is
>a theoretical requirement without any actual users.
>
>
>>
>> 3: Difficulties with QNames as Attribute Values
>> ===============================================
>>
>> Moving on to example 7 a_7.xml:
>> [[[
>> <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>>    xmlns:eg="http://example.org/"
>>    xmlns:q="http://example.org/q"  >
>>    <rdf:Description>
>>      <eg:a rdf:parseType="Literal">
>>          <foo bar="q:name"/>
>>      </eg:a>
>>    </rdf:Description>
>> </rdf:RDF>
>> ]]]
>>
>
>Jeremy
>

Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2002 12:08:31 UTC