- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:49:53 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Rick Parrish <rfmobile@swbell.net>
- cc: <mozilla-rdf@mozilla.org>, <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>, <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
(+cc:www-rdf-comments, dave beckett) On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Rick Parrish wrote: > This is probably way too early to ask but ... > > What are plans to update mozilla's RDF tools to > conform to the newest working draft? > > [ *poof* Alt, Bag, and Seq are gone! ] > > http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/ I can't speak for the Moz-hacking folks, but I can say a bit about the RDF Core WG and in particular this decision. First up, there's no need for panic! RDF still has Alt, Bag and Seq; the only difference is that the special casing they received in the RDF XML grammar is no longer considered necessary. This suits the current Mozilla implementation rather well actually: Moz shoves an rdf:about attribute on Bags, Seqs etc because it likes to specify URIs to name containers. The original RDF Model+Syntax spec doesn't let you do this, really; this means that if you want to treat this Mozilla dialect of RDF as legal RDF, you have to consider things like <Seq rdf:about="some-uri">... as matching the typedNode production in the RDF grammar. Since the new RDF draft treats all rdf:Seq/Alt/Bag as simply more typed nodes (albeit with a bit of magic for interpreting rdf:li), I don't think this will be a problem for Mozilla. Dan
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