RE: parsers that don't need rdf:RDF? from Jeremy Carroll on 2002-09-27 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from September 2002)

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:51:50 +0200
To: Bob DuCharme <bobdc@snee.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Message-id: <BHEGLCKMOHGLGNOKPGHDGEFHCAAA.jjc@hpl.hp.com>

>
> I know that the W3C's "RDF Validation Service" at
> http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ and the downloadable ARP RDF
> processor underneath it don't require RDF statements to be
> enclosed inside of an rdf:RDF element. Are there any others that
> anyone can suggest?
>

Something I've not done, which I think would be legal according to the spec
is allow you to switch ARP in at an arbitrary point in your XML doc ...


<blah>
  <blah>
    <blah>
  <!-- this is RDF content because I just know -->


  <!-- end RDF content -->
    </blah>
   </blah>
</blah>

I think an RDF implementation that worked with a SAX parser or a DOM and
allowed the user to choose which bit of the doc was RDF would be compliant;
but no-ones asked me for that.

Jeremy

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