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- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- To: xml-dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:40:09 -0600
I keep thinking I understand RDF and then I look at DCD and think "I
guess I don't." DCD is supposed to be an RDF vocabulary, right? I know
that it uses some extensions to RDF (argh!), but even so, I don't see
how it works.
Rdf :: = [ <rdf:RDF> ] description * [</rdf:RDF>]
It is odd to me that the RDF wrappers are optional and that not even an
RDF identifying attribute or processing instruction is required, but okay
let's presume that we "know" that a DCD is an RDF and have just left off
the wrapper elements. That means that the root DCD element is a
description.
description ::= typedNode
typedNode ::= <typeName ...> property* </typeName>
But DCD says
DCD ::= <DCD> elementDef * </DCD>
(I presume...I can't actually find a grammar in the DCD spec. but I
haven't looked hard...it certainly isn't in the table of contents)
So what are the properties of the DCD node? Just ElementDef and
AttributeDef?
Am I to understand that these are vector-valued properties?
People complain about SGML minimization, but RDF abbreviation is much
more complicated. Perhaps someone can walk me through the expansion of
A DCD document into completely described nodes and properties.
Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
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