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- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: "xml-dev@xml.org" <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:34:01 -0500
Rick JELLIFFE wrote:
> * The "Formal Grammar" productions are not complete. The allowed
> attributes rdf:value is not specified anywhere: actually, it is mentioned in
> the RDF Schema spec, but that only give a references to s.2.3 in the RDF spec
> which just points to an example.
rdf:value is just like any other property, and is handled as such.
>
> * The RDF spec seems to treat attributes and elements interchangeably:
> sometimes we get rdf:type attribute, sometimes we get rdf:type element. The
> pupported "complete BNF for RDF" only gives the attribute form.
Not so.
> This slackness comes from not using a DTDs or any other schema framework which
> would have allowed their formal specs to have been tested by a generic tool.
DTDs aren't general enough to handle RDF, with its ability to include arbitrary
child elements and arbitrary attributes, especially the latter.
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