- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:20:20 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
So... that was slightly on the tough side, though from a technical point of view I agree. Whatever happened to 'anyone can say anything about anything' (at risk of being disbelieved) as a Web architecture principle? Sergey's asserting that the RDF M+S namespace contains some stuff that W3C hadn't mentioned/described (yet?). Since it's not his namespace, I'm not inclined to believe him, but he can make those RDF assertions nonetheless. BTW the M+S spec (for better or worse) does appear to anticipate future additions to existing namespaces, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/#grammar When an RDF processor encounters an XML element or attribute name that is declared to be from a namespace whose name begins with the string "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax" and the processor does not recognize the semantics of that name[....] Anyhow, a handy service for this sort of thing is the PURL redirector run by OCLC, http://purl.org/ This lets you sign up and manage a namespace, redirected to wherever the content happens to reside. For example http://purl.org/rss/ points at Egroups right now, though likely not forever. I'd encourage RDF implementors concerned about transient namespace URIs to consider using the PURL server... Dan On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Dan Connolly wrote: > I'm looking over recent RDF developments, and > I wanted to find the namespace names of some > of the various RDF syntax proposals out there > so I could do a little XSLT hacking on them... > > I just noticed the following: > > [[[ > <!ENTITY rdf 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'> > <!ELEMENT section ANY> > <!ATTLIST section rdf:instance CDATA ""> > ]]] > >
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