- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:15:37 -0400
- To: jon@spin.ie
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
From: "Jon Hanna" <jon@spin.ie> Subject: RE: Using XMLSchema-instance attributes in RDF/XML Syntax Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:00:27 +0100 > > > > > Well, then, doesn't RDF/XML treat the XML namespace specially? > > > > > > Er, no. XML does. > > > > How can RDF/XML build on the XML infoset, which treates the XML namespace > > specially, and not treat the XML namespace specially? Does it somehow > > undo the special treatment accorded to the XML namespace by XML? > > That's the point that those of us who've pointed out that it is XML, and not > RDF/XML, that treats the XML namespace specially were making. > > Because XML treats the XML namespace specially RDF/XML *can't* undo this and > must also treat it specially, hence you don't get any triples generated with > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacelang, > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacespace or > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespacebase as the predicate. > > XML does not treat the XSI namespace specially, so therefore if parsing > RDF/XML were to similarly not attempt to generate triples for attributes > from that namespace then that *would* need to be a special rule in RDF/XML. How about using a post-schema validation infoset, or whatever it is called. Wouldn't that solve the problems? Peter F. Patel-Schneider Bell Labs Research
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