- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:58:36 -0400
- To: "Brian McBride" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Cc: "RDF Comments" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>, "RDF Interest" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Brian McBride wrote: > > What the spec actually says is: ... > Other values of parseType are reserved for future specification by RDF. > With RDF 1.0 other values must be treated as identical to 'Literal'. > > Seems pretty clear to me. What is the issue? That the RDF EBNF is not complete? Well Virginia, the RDF EBNF is not complete. What might be considered is making it _informative_ rather than normative to the recommendation. In order to do it correctly you'd need to allow different RDF namespace prefixes, handle whitespace, attribute order etc. etc. etc., Heck you'd need to replicate large parts of XML and then restrict the syntax allowed. Now that you mention it, that's exactly what certain types of schema languages do. The suggestion has been made to define the RDF grammar as a function of the XML Infoset rather than the native XML character stream, this is essentially the same as defining the RDF Grammar using a regular tree language (i.e. RELAX or TREX). -Jonathan
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