- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:09:40 +0100
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
At 07:42 09/07/04 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
>I think if you are parsing a typed literal and you know you're parsing
>a typed literal, you should collapse the whitespace before passing the
>value on to down-stream applications.
>
>Given that the RDF spec says that whitespace is eliminated by
>validation, I can easily imagine writing an application that assumes
>typed values like integers and URIs won't have insignificant
>whitespace around them.
Hmmm. Let's try a test case.
Does this:
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.example.org/">
<dc:title> The trouble with spaces </dc:title>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
RDF-entail this:
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.example.org/">
<dc:title
rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"> The trouble with
spaces </dc:title>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
I think it should, but under your suggested regime I think it would not.
#g
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