Re: rdf:li ?? in primer

>  >>>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.

Yes, I was.

I have to say, this idea of a 'syntax name' that isn't actually a 
name *is* very confusing, particularly when it sure LOOKS like a 
name.  Im still puzzled about how it's supposed to actually work. 
Seems to me that the actual graph formed from some RDF/XML which uses 
rdf:li can vary from moment to moment at the whim of the parser, 
since it depends on some ordering that isnt specified in the syntax.

>  rdf:li is a syntax name; it has
>never been an RDF property, class or whatever.  We have thus never
>deprecated or forbidden it.

Well, its ours, right? I mean, its in our namespace? It starts with 
'rdf:', after all.

>
>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

OK, thanks.

>
>including:
>   [[Syntax names - not concepts
>
>     RDF Description ID about bagID parseType resource li nodeID
>     datatype
>   ]]

Now Im puzzled about something else. I've been using rdf:Datatype as 
a class name. Is that a mistake??

Pat

PS. BTW, you say there that 'any other names are not defined and 
SHOULD generate a warning when encountered' which seems a bit strong. 
That means for example that any OWL vocabulary is going to generate 
an RDF warning. In fact, any RDFS vocabulary is going to generate an 
RDF warning.
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Received on Monday, 9 December 2002 11:51:48 UTC