- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:24:34 +0100
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Hi Mark The RDF Core WG considered the issue you raised on rdf:RDF and decided at the 2003-10-03 telcon http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Oct/0071.html to accept it. We have made rdf:RDF (more) optional; that is, if one node element is inside rdf:RDF, the rdf:RDF is optional. This explicitly allows the RDF/XML example you gave in your comment: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:19:51 -0400 Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote: > I don't believe that rdf:RDF should be required. I'm familiar with the > conventional wisdom about a single root element being desirable, but I > really don't understand what it buys us, at least in this case. On the > contrary, I think it's absolutely wonderful to be able to say that this > is RDF; > > <Person xmlns="some-uri"> > <name>Mark</name> > </Person> <snip/> We are adding a test case similar to the above to the RDF Core test cases WD, generating two triples. At this date there is no published working draft that shows this change but it is incorporated in the next round of WDs published this week (hopefully). The current editor's draft at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/TR/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20030117/ contains this change in section 7.2.1. See the changelog entry at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/TR/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20030117/#section-Changes2 for the details. Please reply, copying www-rdf-comments@w3.org whether this response is an acceptable disposition of your comment. Thanks Dave
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