Comment: wsdl20-rdf should canonicalize extension attributes

On behalf of the Semantic Annotations of WSDL Working Group I wish to
comment that

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-wsdl20-rdf-20060518/#genericext
[[
extension attributes are represented as instances of the class
ExtensionAttribute, which in turn have a name (property attributeName
pointing to a QName) and a value (property rdf:value pointing to a
literal containing the attribute value).
]]

loses the namespace and xml:base information needed for resolution of
QNames and relative URIs in the attribute value, as well as xml:lang
assignments which may be necessary for interpreting strings. I propose
the following strawman text (not endorsed by SAWSDLWG):

[[

Each extension attribute is represented as an XML literal containing a
canonicalised representation of the entire extension XML attribute,
placed in an element with the namespace prefix
{http://www.w3.org/2006/07/quotedXML#} and the local name
{attrContainer}. For example, an attribute sawsdl:modelReference on an
Interface component could be serialized as:

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|<iface7> rdf:type wsdf:InterfaceOperation .                              |
|<iface7> wsdl:extensionAttribute                                         |
|    "<quote:attrContainer xml:base="http://example.org/books/search/"    |
|        xmlns:wsdl="..." xmlns:sawsdl="..."                              |
|        xmlns:wsdf="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/quotedXML#" xmlns:foo="..."|
|        sawsdl:modelReference="../temrs#BookSearch"/>"^^rdf:XMLLiteral   |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
]]

See <http://www.w3.org/mid/20060707010138.GD14372@w3.org> for more
discussion of this.
-- 
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Received on Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:31:03 UTC