- From: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 19:14:08 +0000
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi On Fri 01-Mar-2002 at 05:27:01 -0000, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > RDF simply does not support xhtml:dir and trying to get it to do so is > mistaken. OK, fair enough, is it OK then not to specify the text direction of right-to-left languages in RDF files? > One way to use it successfully though, is with rdf:parseType="Literal". > > e.g. > > <dc:title xml:lang="en-gb" rdf:parseType="Literal"> > <xhtml:span xhtml:dir="ltr">Chris Croome's home page</xhtml:span> > </dc:title> > > (I don't know xhtml well, and may have made mistakes there). The XHTML is fine :-) I've done another test file based on this [1] but it doesn't generate a triple for the language (or the direction) as is being suggested by the DCMI [2]: http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ARPServlet?TRIPLES_AND_GRAPH=PRINT_BOTH&ORIENTATION=LR&FORMAT=PNG_EMBED&URI=http://chris.croome.net/dc.ltr4.rdf In that way that my attempt does: http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ARPServlet?TRIPLES_AND_GRAPH=PRINT_BOTH&ORIENTATION=LR&FORMAT=PNG_EMBED&URI=http://chris.croome.net/dc.ltr2.rdf (Sorry for long URI's, I couldn't manage to make them any shorter without breaking them.) > Running in Jena should get you the necessary namespace in the XML > literal. M&S is currently somewhat underspecified. On Tuesday the RDF > Core decided to use XML Canonicalization in some way to specify that > the namespace is part of the XML literal in an example such as this. I > am working on the details. Sorry you have completly lost me here, and appologies in advance if I'm asking really stupid questions. Chris [1] http://chris.croome.net/dc.ltr4.rdf [2] http://dublincore.org/documents/2001/11/30/dcq-rdf-xml/#sec4 -- Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/ everything else http://chris.croome.net/
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