- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:22:51 -0500
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- CC: Ron Daniel <rdaniel@interwoven.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Aaron Swartz wrote: > > On Friday, August 3, 2001, at 02:20 PM, Ron Daniel wrote: > > > 1) Escape as & and advise RDF applications or processors > > that they will need to unescape such things. (Preferably > > the RDF processor unescapes it before handing it off to > > the calling application, says the guy developing applications > > more than RDF parsers.) > > I really, really, hope that most RDF/XML parsers are built on > top of XML parsers, in which case the & is unescaped for > free. Quite. > Parsers that do not do proper XML parsing should be taken > out back and beaten. ;-) Or perhaps more constructively: we should provide a relevant test case so that developers can learn about such quirks before release, and hapless users of such broken parsers can have a handy test case to go with their bug report etc. ===== amp-in-url.rdf ===== <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example/q?abc=1&def=2"> <rdf:value>xxx</rdf:value> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> ========== ===== amp-in-url.nt ===== <http://example/q?abc=1&def=2> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#value> "xxx" . ========== I checked these in under http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/test/ but I haven't chacled them, and that's probably not the best place for them. Art, what is the best place? Would you please copy this test case there? -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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