- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:34:14 +0100
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
At 16:28 22/10/2002 -0400, Dan Brickley wrote: [...] >According to M+S '99 REC (which has about='' examples) is that only elements in the rdf namespace? Ah no. there is an example in another namespace. >this is OK. >According to RDF Core, it isn't. The new RDF syntax spec doesn't make >clear why such documents are no longer considered RDF, only that they are >not. Perhaps there is a case based on parser complexity, efficiency etc., >but I've not yet seen it made strongly enough to justify the backwards >compatibility hit. As I recall, a concern was about defining names not in the rdf namespace, e.g. <foo:bar about="..."> We talked about deprecation but were advised against by DanC. In practise parsers will be tolerant of this input unless they are set to strict mode and that seemed like a reasonable migration strategy. We could add a note to they syntax doc suggesting that parser writers be aware. On the other hand, I personally agree that is a change to M&S and perhaps we can find some other way to deal with it. Brian
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