Re: validating RDF syntax with XML Schema

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Dan Connolly wrote:

> > From: Lee Jonas (lee.jonas@cakehouse.co.uk)
> > Date: Tue, Oct 17 2000
> 
> > Can anyone point me at some examples?
> 
> RDF Syntax: An XML Schema Approach
>     in progress Aug 2000 
> http://www.w3.org/2000/07/DAML-0-5-syntax
> 
> > I am having difficulty reconciling XML Schema's tendancy to presume you are
> > defining a single vocabulary (hence a single 'targetNamespace')  with RDF's
> > "feature(?)" of mixing and matching RDF, RDFS & specific RDF(S) namespaces
> > (e.g. the Dublin Core).
> 


> You need an XML Schema document for each namespace;
> they can be combined straightforwardly
> (using import).

Very interesting...  I took a quick look at your doc but need to 
digest it further. Hopefully these questions won't be redudant
then. Anyway, I'll risk asking dumb questions:
Can we mechanically fabricate the XML Schema for each RDF
namespace? ie. given a list of properties, classes (and other
resources) described by the RDF, can you auto-generate the XML Schema? 
If not, are there at least some high level similarities amongst these
schemas that could make the task simpler?

Dan

Received on Friday, 20 October 2000 19:14:29 UTC