Review

I took an action from the last telecon to review testlist1#rdfa1 [2]

Caveats: I am not very familiar with RDF/A and have not run the
transform, so this 'review' is by inspection.

I note the result [3] contains

[[
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="">
    <transformation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
rdf:resource="RDFa2RDFXML.xsl"/>
  </rdf:Description>
]]

The rdf:about refers to the RDF document, which from my reading of the
latest (editors draft) RDF/A spec [4] is incorrect - see 4.3.3.1.  It
should refer to the source document.

I note also that the property in this statement has a URI of
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmltransformation and is affected by the
default namespace in effect in the head of the source document.  I think
the test case accurately reflects the spec, but that still looks a bit
broken to me.

The statement

[[
  <rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-mt-20040210/">
    <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">RDF Semantics
- W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004</dc:title>
  </rdf:Description>
]]

The RDF/A spec says the object of this property should be an XML literal
(see 4.4.1) and the RDF spec [5] says that XML literals and plain
literals are disjoint.  I think this may be a problem with the RDF/A
spec.

I've run out of time - too many specs to read, but there is another
issue that I think I ought to raise.  (Must you - do I hear?)

I'd like to see a separation between test cases and examples.  I'd
prefer test cases that were small, simple, verifiable by inspection and
didn't carry any baggage such as "is this a correct interpretation of
the RDF/A spec".  Our test cases are going beyond what the spec defines,
e.g. in illustrating practice for XSLT transforms - and Dan asked
recently whether they should be normative.  Is it then a good idea to
include an RDF/A transform as a test case?  Its relatively
straighforward to have a different class called examples - though some
work for someone to set it up.

Brian


[1] http://www.w3.org/2006/12/06-grddl-wg-irc
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/td/testlist1#rdfa1
[3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/grddl-wg/td/rdf_sem-output.rdf
[4] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/syntax/
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-XMLLiteral

Received on Tuesday, 12 December 2006 09:12:10 UTC