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   Re: [xml-dev] RDF Interpretation of XML documents (was Re: [xml-d

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Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> > 3) Eschew mixed content.
> 
> Is this an absolute must for such RDF interpretation?

At the formal level, RDF defines no meaning for elements with mixed
content.

At the conceptual level, RDF throws away information about document order
(child elements and attributes are basically the same thing), and mixed
content makes little or no sense in that domain of interpretation.

> It really seems to highlight that RDF and XML are different planets.

They are.  But a) the standard serialization of RDF models is expressed
in XML, and b) most "data-oriented" XML can be processed by conformant
RDF processors with at most local tweaking.

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