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- From: "Jeffrey E. Sussna" <jes@kuantech.com>
- To: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@locke.ccil.org>,"'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:45:54 -0800
I took it the same way. But doesn't that violate the principle of XML as being self-describing? The document is now tied to a specific set of applications, rather than only being tied to any applications that are capable of reading and understanding a schema. I suspect either I or the spec are being a little pedantic here; given that there is a namespace specifier, the application will always know what it's dealing with, but something feels wrong about binding a description language to an application context.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
John Cowan
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 2:23 PM
To: XML Dev
Subject: Re: RDF considered optional
Jeffrey E. Sussna wrote:
> The RDF syntax spec states that "The RDF element is optional if the
> content can be known to be RDF from the application context."
>
> Can anyone clarify exactly what is meant by "application context"?
I take that to mean that if the application already knows it is
dealing with RDF, no RDF element is required. It's just a container
for the true RDF anyway.
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