- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:12:24 PDT
- To: "ejw@ics.uci.edu" <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- CC: "'Bob Schloss'" <rschloss@us.ibm.com>, "w3c-dist-auth@w3.org" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, "'Jim Davis'" <jdavis@parc.xerox.com>, "Ralph Swick (E-mail)" <swick@w3.org>, "'lassila@w3.org'" <lassila@w3.org>
How about putting this in the webdav spec, in a paragraph: "Relationship of WebDAV to external metadata representations such as W3C RDF" > ... RDF will simply "plug and play" with the WebDAV property > system. A WebDAV property is a (name, value) pair, where the name is a > URI, and the value is a well-formed XML document. Since an RDF description > is a well-formed XML document, an RDF "serialization" block can be placed > within the value of a WebDAV property, and hence a WebDAV property may > contain an RDF description. WebDAV does not affect the semantics of these > RDF serialization blocks -- this is defined by the RDF specification. What > WebDAV does provide is a mechanism by which RDF description blocks can be > stored and associated with web resources. In a sense, WebDAV provides the > "how": how are descriptions stored; while RDF provides the "what": what is > the syntax and semantics of the description. -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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