- From: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:07:23 +0100
- To: RDF Interest group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Hi, I've just noticed something the the RDF syntax which has me wondering how RDF parser implementers are dealing with whitespace in literals. The RDF syntax spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#section-Nodes), section 6.1.9 on typed literals, mentions "In XML Schema (part 1) [XML-SCHEMA1], white space normalization occurs during validation according to the value of the whiteSpace facet. The syntax mapping used in this document occurs after this, so the whiteSpace facet formally has no further effect." But, given that RDF/XML an open-ended tag set, schema validation of RDF/XML doesn't make a lot of sense. Further, I don't have an XML schema processor to do such validation. How are other implementers dealing with this? My inclination is to pass the original literal, with whitespace intact, and allow the subsequent datatype processing to treat it with the same effect as if the whiteSpace had been eliminated by schema validation. For this purpose, the whitespace facet is implicitly part of the datatype. Does anyone have any other ideas on this? #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact
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