- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 2001 15:11:09 +0100
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
After a brief glance, I'd say you'd be best served by
a) Defining a canonical XML representation which was explicit,
somewhat verbose, and used only element names from the RDF namespace.
The primary design goal for this form is that mapping from it to the
RDF model should be trivial;
b) Defining an XSLT transform sheet which maps from your desired range
of representations, as recorded in section 4, into the canonical
representation.
A combination of a tight XML Schema for the canonical XML
representation, a loose XML Schema for the desired range of
representations, and some error detection in the transform sheet, will
get you the constraints you want in a reasonably neat way.
ht
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