- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:32:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Nick Gibbins <nmg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- cc: www-rdf-interest Mailing List <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>For example, is the following XML document an example of the use of
>RDF? (ie. it is RDF?)
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><foo xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
> <bar>lorem ipsum</bar>
> <dc:title>This is a title</dc:title>
></foo>
>
This question ties to a few others that have come up.
My response would be this is just XML, since nothing says otherwise.
The caveat is that if we allow RDF to omit rdf:RDF and rely on well-known
namespaces then we have to figure out a way to answer the question for a
parser - i.e. is it legitimate to rewrite this as
<rdf:RDF>
<rdf:Description about="">
<dc:title>This is a title</dc:title>
</rdf:Description>
<foo id="barfoo">
<bar>lorem ipsum</bar>
</foo>
</rdf:RDF>
or not?
We could also wonder what the namespace says - does it provide an XML schema,
or an RDF schema, or something else, or both? Does it answer to a request for
something that transforms from one to the other?
Chaals
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