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> Mike Champion wrote:
>
> > That's very human readable ... but RDF-challenged as I am, I don't
> > understand how it uses RDF. Where is all the cruft that people complain
> > about? :-)
>
> As I've said many times RDF doesn't *have* to be complicated, unfortunately,
> RDF all too often get's way too complicated and that's where sensible folks
> get thrown off the boat.
>
> that XML makes the following assertions:
>
> <#foo> rdf:type rddl:resource .
> <#foo> rddl:nature <http://example.org/nature> .
> <#foo> rddl:nature <http://example.org/purpose> .
> <#foo> rddl:nature <http://example.org/L.dtd> .
> <#foo> rddl:prose "<p>A description of the 'L' language>"^^rdf:XMLLiteral .
>
> where that last one is the new typed literal syntax where a string literal
> is separated from a type QName or URI by "^^".
>
> >
> > Would a "native" RDF processor understand the assertions in there, or
> would
> > a RDDL->RDF filter be needed?
> >
>
> A processor would only need to know where to look in the RDDL document for
> the XML to be parsed as RDF. I've suggested an attribute on the top element:
>
> <html rddl:annotation-ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
>
> which would tell a parser to ignore elements in the XHTML namespace, and
> start parsing as RDF elements in any other namespace e.g. <rddl:resource>.
>
> An *actual* RDF document would look like:
>
> <rdf:RDF>
> <rddl:resource>...
> <rddl:resource>...
> </rdf:RDF>
Wow. You took a strange left turn on me. The "<rdf:RDF>" wrapper is optional
in the RDF M&S 1.0 grammar, so a compliant RDF parser can look at your
rddl:resource as a simple typed node that defines an object.
So the version you posted here is indeed "real" RDF.
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dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
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