- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 03:20:46 +0100
- To: "RDF Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com> > We could add a empty parameter entity to allow it to be > extended in a document's internal subset for custom or > development use, [...] > <!ENTITY % Metadata.ext ""> > <!ATTLIST metadata > type NOTATION (dc|rdf|blat %Metadata.ext;) > > Hmm... you've done this before, haven't you :-) That's very neat indeed. So I could declare something like:- <!NOTATION n3 PUBLIC "-//W3C//NOTATION Notation3//EN"" "http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3"> <!ENTITY % Metadata.ext "| n3" > To add Notation3 to the element as a notation (er... it's a bit confusing that I'm using Notation3 as an SGML notation here). Still putting information like that in the schema (lower case "s") still seems odd to someone that likes to make first party assertinos in the documents conformaing to the schemas... e.g. with namespaces, and type attributes, and so on. I could get used to it though! > Then, as I mentioned above, the CDATA section DOM node > [...] would be passed off to processor which would strip off the > CDATA section wrapper and pass it to another XML parser > process, which would first well-formedness check it before > sending it off to the RDF processor. The trouble I see here is that the processor relies upon getting a correct list of notation types from the DTD, and being able to understand and grok the FPIs and system identifiers. Does that actually work in practise? > [...] I do maintain that the solution I've described above is likely > unpalatable to the W3C. I'd be happy to be shown wrong, though. Well, I hope you will be too. I'm not all that certian about the state of play of notations in the current XML architecture, but you seem to outline that making something like the above possible in XHTML would require a major structural change to XML itself - am I correct? In that case, I wouldn't be all that optimistic. -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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