- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:38:24 +0100
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:39:24 -0400 (EDT) "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote: > The issue is that RDF/XML mandates special treatment of certain items in > an XML info set, namely attributes of a certain form. There is no > justification for this special treatment. All applications of XML define application-specific treatment of XML items for their own use. This requires no "special treatment" or justification. > It appears that the special treatment is related to the notion of reserved > names in XML, but the RDF special treatment does not match the notion of > XML reserved names. It matches it fine. > If the justification for the special treatment is to remove XML reserved > names from the resultant RDF graph, then the treatment should be adjusted > to match the XML treatment, *and* the rationale should be mentioned. If > the justification is something else, then this rationale should be > mentioned and defended. There is neither special treatment, nor RDF/XML doing anything usual with 'xml'-prefixed names. It exactly matches the XML specification - they are reserved for the XML (family of) specification(s) to deal with and we take care to preserve that. Dave
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