- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 22:48:47 -0500
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- CC: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Dan Brickley wrote: > http://www.w3.org/2001/05/rdf-c/ (copied below in text form) [...] > I am well aware that the proposal is currently in a skeletal state, and > lacks test cases. I hope it provides at least some useful background for > discussion on friday. Regarding test cases, I have to say I'm stumped: the > implementations this relate to are databases, APIs etc rather than > parsers, and I am not sure how best to represent tests of that kind. Er... maybe I'm missing something, but I read it twice, and it seems to reduce to this simple test case: is this an RDF document or not? <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <rdf:Description> <rdf:_1>abc</rdf:_1> <rdf:_3>def</rdf:_3> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF> The simplest answer that meets my needs is: yes, that's an RDF document. The parts of the spec that suggest otherwise are an error. To my mind, anything that suggest that containers are fundamental in any way -- that they are anything more than a standardized vocabulary of classes and properties and some syntactic sugar -- is an error. Now this doesn't resolve either of the active issues you own, danbri, so maybe I missed the gist of your proposal. http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdf-containers-syntax-ambiguity http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdf-containers-syntax-vs-schema -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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