- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:28:54 -0700
- To: "Murray Altheim" <altheim@eng.sun.com>, "Seth Russell" <seth@robustai.net>
- Cc: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@w3.org>, "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, "Danny Ayers" <danny@panlanka.net>, "RDF Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> I have little belief that a general RDF-in-XHTML solution is necessary > or even a good idea, and the discussions I've heard here have not We hear you :-) Some people think it is a fantastic idea, however, and they haven't been convinced otherwise. Is it possible to treat this is a general issue, so that we don't have to convince one another? > ad hoc basis. Criticisms of XHTML for not being able to XML-validate > inclusions of any well-formed markup are out of order, insofar as *no* > XML markup language can do that. It's as I've said a non-sequitor. The Well, we could easily validate an XHTML document that had: <metadata encoding="N3"> ..... </metadata> embedded in it, since N3 is not well-formed XML. It is only when we stick well-formed XML in there that the XML validation tries blindly to "validate" it according to the XHTML DTD. Perhaps I am simple-minded, but I am still fascinated by the fact that this block can contain anything *except* XML. This isn't the fault of XHTML; rather it is a peculiarity of DTDs. This also is not a problem specific to RDF, because I can use a: <script language="some_well_formed_xml_scripting_language"> ... </script> and break XHTML validation. So I hope we can avoid treating this as a "RDF should not exist anyway, so the restriction is fine" problem. > only solution possible would be to CDATA section the whole thing, but > then XML processors would treat it as CDATA rather than something with > a notation of RDF. This would not be useful. External links to RDF is Is this really a problem? Maybe this is the best way to do it? Does anyone have any objections to using: <metadata encoding="rdf"> <!CDATA[ <rdf:rdf ..namespace declarations..> <rdf:Description about="" ... /> <rdf:Description about="#someid" ... /> </rdf:rdf> ]]> </metadata> Regards, Joshua
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