- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:15:54 +0000
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- cc: fmanola@mitre.org, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>>>pat hayes said:
>
> Frank, your prose in section 4.1 of the primer mentions rdf:li as a
> convenience element generic XML version of container membership
> properties. My recollection is that we had decided to deprecate or
> even forbid rdf:li in this way, however (??) on the grounds that
> there was in general no way to assign numerical properties to the
> instances of rdf:li.
>
> We ought to get this straight one way or the other. If we still have
> rdf:li, can anyone tell me how to map RDF/XML into a graph?
>
> Another matter, if we keep rdf:li, then your reference to 'list
> element' is potentially confusing given the use of 'list structure'
> in the next section to refer to something completely different.
I think you are a bit confused Pat. rdf:li is a syntax name; it has
never been an RDF property, class or whatever. We have thus never
deprecated or forbidden it.
Just to be clear; RDF as we have revised has changed two names in the
RDF namespace
rdf:aboutEach rdf:aboutEachPrefix - syntax only devices, now removed
(we've added some of course)
The definitive words for rdf: things:
5.1 The RDF Namespace
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#section-Namespace
including:
[[Syntax names - not concepts
RDF Description ID about bagID parseType resource li nodeID
datatype
]]
Dave
Received on Monday, 9 December 2002 08:18:03 UTC