RE: parsers that don't need rdf:RDF?

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

> Hmm. For SVG and SMIL and Speech Recognition Grammar it would indeed be
> useful to know when to parse RDF. So how do we know? By keying from the fact
> that the rest of the elements are, or are enclosed by, elements in the RDF
> namespace? That seems rather more feasible than just collectng a list of
> languages where we expect to find RDF, and some information about where we
> expect to find it. In other words, a parser looks for RDF stuff and assumes
> that anything inside an rdf-namespaced element is RDF - whether that is a
> root RDF element or whether there is a fragment with some other root
> element...

Yup, this is an interesting problem. I wonder if we could use XPath
strings as a basis for metadata about the varous XML doc formats.

Dan