RE: RDF Validation

Hi Libby and Frank,

Thanks for the tips you gave!  I finally got the file in a shape that passed
the test.

The experience I had was that the error messages normally don't tell you
what the real problem is. For example, I had the closing </Ontology>  at the
far end of my ontology. Wrong! (No idea why, it appeared quite logical to
enclose the contents of an ontology). When I corrected that, a number of the
mysterious error messages disappeared.

Regards,
Hans


-----Original Message-----
From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Libby Miller
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 12:32 PM
To: Hans Teijgeler
Cc: semantic-web@w3.org; Christiansen Thore
Subject: Re: RDF Validation




Hans,

You probably need to send us the entire file exactly as it is for real
help. At a guess you might have some whitespace or other funny characters
at the start of the file. Another one that produces odd errors is missing
namespace declarations.

Libby

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Hans Teijgeler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need some help.
>
> When validating the RDF syntax of an RDF/XML file by means of the W3C RDF
> Validation Service <http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/>  I got Error E201
all
> over the place, all at the same kind of place, and I don't understand what
> could possibly be wrong. I checked the file for XML well-formedness, and
it
> passed the test.
>
> Below is a snippet of the file, and the related error message. I colored
> that line 185 in red (the fifth line of the snippet, for the colorblind
> e-mail systems). Strange enough the validator didn't have problems with
the
> comment line 10 lines below (marked in green)
>
>     <owl:Class rdf:ID="Activity">
>         <rdfs:subClassOf>
>             <owl:Class rdf:resource="#PossibleIndividual"/>
>         </rdfs:subClassOf>
>         <rdfs:comment
> rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
>             DEFINITION An Activity is a PossibleIndividual that brings
about
> change by
>             causing the Event that marks the Beginning, or the Event that
> marks the
>             Ending of a PossibleIndividual .
>             An Activity consists of the temporal parts of those members of
>             PossibleIndividual that participate in the Activity. The
> participating
>             temporal parts will be classified by the
> ParticipatingRoleAndDomain
>             that indicates the role of the temporal part in the Activity .
>         </rdfs:comment>
>         <rdfs:comment
> rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">
>             EXAMPLE Pumping a fluid with a mechanical pump can be
> represented by an
>             instance of Activity .
>         </rdfs:comment>
>     </owl:Class>
>
> Error: {E201} Unusual Syntax error when processing general start element
> tag. Encountered general start element tag Was expecting one of: XML
ELEMENT
> CONTENT end element tag [Line = 185, Column = 9]
>
> Any hints?
>
> Regards,
> Hans
>
>
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