- From: Art Barstow <barstow@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:50:02 -0400
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Hi,
We discussed:
http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdf-ns-prefix-confusion
at a Team meeting and we propose:
1. The grammar in section 6. of the M&S spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/#grammar
should be changed so that all of the RDF attributes (e.g. about,
resource, etc.) are qualified with a RDF namespace.
2. Text along the lines of the following should be added to the M&S spec:
[[
All elements and attributes in RDF must be namespace qualified
]]
Among the reasons for this position:
o It is a myth that unqualified attributes inherit the namespace of
their enclosing element. See the Namespace Myths, particularly
Myth #4:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/08/namespaces/index.html?page=2
o XPath support is becoming more pervasive and by using it, finding
qualified attributes is fairly easy
o Search engines (such as google) would have trouble following pointers
from one RDF document to another and a simple XPath expression to find
pointers would help them without having to process all of RDF
o Prefixed attributes work today with most of the deployed code
Art
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