- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:48:43 -0500
- To: hendler@cs.umd.edu
- cc: www-archive@w3.org
You said last night [1]:
Basically, we need an RDF equivalent of XInclude (but cannot use
XInclude since it creates illegal RDF) i.e. a document with an
<rdf:RDF> cannot include another document with an <rdf:RDF> and
still be a legal RDF/XML document
Have you raised this to www-rdf-comments? Allowing nested rdf:RDF
seems like a trivial extension to the grammar with no change to the
semantics. Knowing nothing as I do, I'd think the Core WG would be
likely to provide this if you asked for it. I bet a lot of people
would like it.
On the other hand, maybe this isn't the right way to do imports at
all, and it should be done at the semantic level.... (Tim [et al
including me] are arguing that saying animals:Cat by its nature
imports animals; trying to separate animals:Cat from animals:Dog is
unlikely to succeed -- they each kind of define each other.)
-- sandro
[1] http://ilrt.org/discovery/chatlogs/rdfig/2002-10-31#T02-00-49
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