RE: Specifing language direction in RDF

[One aspect ...]

Jeremy:
> 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.

Chris:
> Sorry you have completly lost me here,

OK.

While ARP is not perfect in this regard, it did do an OK job with your
example.

The important literal got turned into:

<xhtml:span xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xhtml:dir="ltr">Chris Croome's home page</xhtml:span>

(I added the newline).
Notice that the xmlns:xhtml attribute is not in the orignal XML file, at
least not in that location. It is wholly unclear from M&S whether this is
correct or not. It is the intention of the current RDF Core WG to clarify
what is correct behaviour in this case.

Jeremy

Received on Monday, 4 March 2002 04:34:07 UTC