Conflict between WD-RDF-syntax-19980819 and REC-xml!!

I complained about this before, but it didn't get fixed.

The latest RDF syntax draft says in clause 6:

# The values for each ID and bagID attribute must not appear more than
# once within a document nor may the same value be used in an ID and a
# bagID; that is, these two attributes have XML AttType ID.

But this cannot be, because the XML Recommendation says in clause 3.3.1:

# Validity Constraint: One ID per Element Type
# No element type may have more than one ID attribute specified.

A simple workaround is to create a new "<rdf:Reification bagID=xxx/>"
element type, to be a child of the Description element used to hold
the bagID.  This permits documents containing (restricted) RDF
to be validated with an appropriate DTD.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

Received on Thursday, 10 September 1998 16:06:48 UTC