- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:53:53 +0200
- To: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Sorry my e-mail on this topic got out before it was meant to. I insert/correct the references etc > containers test0004 involves the fourth expansion of the property element > production rule 6.12. [6.12] propertyElt ::= [ omit ] | '<' propName idRefAttr? bagIdAttr? propAttr* '/>' > By the decision to drop all the special container rules, this expnasion then > applies to rdf:li. By paragraph 232 (which is so horrible its number!) this > fourth expansion is different from the others, in that it does not reify, > but the ID is the ID of the resource. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2001Jun/att-0021/00-part#232 > in my opinion para 232 is an error, and is addressed in the unresolved issue > FFFFFF No, it isn't. None of the issues would allow us to drop para 232 if we wanted to. We would need to start a new issue first. > I did some archaelogy on this one, and as far as I could tell, this > paragraph dates from the early days before the first working group resolves > issues 4, 7 ,11 and they still had a certain amount of confusion about > referring to a resource and referring to the description of the resource. I > think it is a hard call whether to delete paragraph 232 or preserve it for > the sake of backwards compatibility. I have probably got those issues numbers wrong, and need to go over the member archives to get the references. I will do that early september if there is interest. Dan Connolly wrote: > > I guess my implementation will raise a "not supported" > > exception in that case; I don't see sufficient value > > to implement this. > test0005 is also difficult for some parser writers (e.g. me). It is fine if > you really are using an XSLT transform to process rdf:li, but if you're not > you need some fairly horrid special code for processing a corner case that > nobody in their right mind would rely on. ARP does it, but I personally am > very sympathetic to a not supported exception. Jeremy
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