- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:41:56 -0400
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
A point of clarification raised in a private e-mail: > > Now for this specific issue when an RDF/OWL application dereferences a > URIref e.g. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-guide-20030331/wine.owl#TableWine I am assuming that an RDF/OWL application dereferences using: Accept: application/rdf+xml > > it will get back: > > <owl:Class rdf:ID="TableWine"> ... > </owl:Class> > > An OWL/RDF application doesn't get confused by this, this means the class > TableWine, not a piece of XML i.e. element owl:Class[@rdf:ID="TableWine"] > because RDF/OWL have a semantics which provides for such an interpretation > of the XML syntax. > In the context of the media type "application/rdf+xml" the returned representation is to be interpreted as RDF http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-Social One could request/return a media type "application/xml" in which case the RDF/XML would be interpreted as XML i.e. without the RDF semantics. It is in this later case (or other media types besides application/rdf+xml, and related media types such as "application/n3" or "application/n-triples") where current SW agents cannot derive meaning Jonathan
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