- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:11:21 -0500
- To: jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com
- CC: peter.crowther@networkinference.com, drew.mcdermott@yale.edu, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com wrote: > > > > From: Drew McDermott [mailto:drew.mcdermott@yale.edu] > > > Stop the presses! There's an rdf:parseType Quote?? > > > > No such luck! See Sandro's email at: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/2001May/0218.html > > > > [Sandro] > > "The problem is that parseType="Quote" is something Tim made up for > > contexts, as far as I know. Nothing can parse that RDF. So that is > > broken. Thus my version...." There are a few pieces of software that can parse that RDF; it's not broken... > see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/2001May/0303.html rdf:parseType is an extension mechanism... the RDF 1.0 spec says that rdf:parseType="log:quote" (just like rdf:parseType="daml:collection") may be treated like rdf:parseType="literal"; i.e. "the value of this property is a blob of un-interpreted XML". So if you use this extension mechanism, not all the RDF tools will grok; but (a) they shouldn't fall over; it's clear where the end of the extended-syntax section is, and (b) if they don't grok the semantics of the terms (log:implies, daml:first/daml:rest/daml:nil) anyway, there's no harm in using a syntactic extension. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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