- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:50:35 +0100
- To: "Hart, Lewis" <lhart@grci.com>
- CC: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Lewis, I have added a reference to this thread in the RDF Issues list under: http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdf-ns-prefix-confusion Brian "Hart, Lewis" wrote: > > I will apologize in advance for starting a topic that most likely has been > discussed before, but I could not seem to find the concise answers I sought. > > The RDF specification says that, in an RDF document: > > <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org"> > <s:Publisher>World Wide Web Consortium</s:Publisher> > <s:Title>W3C Home Page</s:Title> > <s:Date>1998-10-03T02:27</s:Date> > </rdf:Description> > > can be equivalently expressed using abbreviated syntax as: > > <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org"> > s:Publisher="World Wide Web Consortium" > s:Title="W3C Home Page" > s:Date="1998-10-03T02:27"/> > > This loosely allows attributes to be treated as elements. Now the rub... The > XML Namespace specification states that "default namespaces do not apply > directly to attributes". What does that mean? Does it mean that this: > > <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org"> > <Publisher>World Wide Web Consortium</Publisher> > <Title>W3C Home Page</Title> > <Date>1998-10-03T02:27</Date> > </rdf:Description> > > is NOT equivalent to this: > > <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org"> > Publisher="World Wide Web Consortium" > Title="W3C Home Page" > Date="1998-10-03T02:27"/> > > If not, why not? > > Thanks - Lewis > > ___________________________________________ > Lewis L Hart > GRC International lhart@grci.com > 1900 Gallows Rd. Voice (703)506-5938 > Vienna, Va 22182 Fax (703)556-4261
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