- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:07:25 +0000
- To: "Oliver Lyttleton" <olyttlet@computing.dcu.ie>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 12:39 12/02/2003 +0000, Oliver Lyttleton wrote: >Is a tag like this permissible in RDF? > ><rdf:RDF > xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" > xmlns:lib="http://www.zvon.org/library"> Yes >The formal grammar for RDF would seem to say no: > >RDF ::= ['<rdf:RDF>'] ><http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/#obj>obj* ['</rdf:RDF>'] > >ie you can't declare namespaces as attributes of the root element of an >RDF document. I think you are referring to grammar in Model & Syntax http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/ Whilst this is the current specification, the RDFCore WG have been revising and clarifying the specs. I suggest you take a look at the last call working draft of the updated spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/ Brian
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