- From: <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:11:17 +0100
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> > If RDF had a cannonical syntax in XML then you could use XMLPath with > > RDF and although you would not be querying the RDF model, it would > > nevertheless work ok. > > > > Libby > > I also fully agree with that. But we don't (yet?) have a cannonical > RDF/XML syntax. So it is not ok right now. And although it is ok from a > pragmatic point of view, it is not from a more conceptual one (in my > opinion). We can probably live with that, but we should be careful as it > might not be in our best interest on the long run. > > Emmanuel I'm not sure that such a canonical syntax would be useful in general (though it might have use in some cases, such as creating a way of signing RDF by allowing RDF -> Canonical RDF/XML -> Canonical XML -> Digest). XPath can be used with RDF/XML that is produced by an application in a consistent manner, in particular XML that is designed to be parsed by RDF/XML parsers but which do not necessarily only operate in this manner. An example being RSS1.0. Personally I think that this is going to see more use, as a custom application might be able to deal with its "own" XML document type more efficiently than a general RDF tool, and there might be a desire to allow both to happen (one for "local" use one for greater interoperability). Jon Hanna
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