- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:41:14 +0100
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
At 11:11 AM 5/22/01 -0500, Dan Connolly wrote: >There are a few pieces of software that can parse that RDF; >it's not broken... > > > see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/2001May/0303.html > >rdf:parseType is an extension mechanism... the RDF 1.0 >spec says that rdf:parseType="log:quote" (just like >rdf:parseType="daml:collection") may be treated >like rdf:parseType="literal"; i.e. "the value >of this property is a blob of un-interpreted XML". > >So if you use this extension mechanism, not all >the RDF tools will grok; but (a) they shouldn't >fall over; it's clear where the end of the >extended-syntax section is, and (b) if they don't grok the >semantics of the terms (log:implies, >daml:first/daml:rest/daml:nil) >anyway, there's no harm in using a syntactic >extension. Hmmm... this may be the case, but absent a common understanding of the basic RDF semantics (e.g. "reification") I'm not sure that it's really helpful to be suggesting this kind of extension. #g ------------ Graham Klyne GK@NineByNine.org
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