On Nov 2, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Bob Wyman wrote:
Just to confuse matters a bit, I'd like to suggest that folk take a
look at the RDF/A Syntax[1] which may be useful for us in general while also
making the RDF folk a bit happier then they otherwise might be. RDF/A
provides a means for layering RDF information on any XML document by
defining a new XML syntax for RDF that relies only on XML attributes.
Yikes, no, Qnames have no meaning inside content -- they are only processed by the XML parser. If they are inside the attribute value then the attribute value reader must backtrack through the XML tree in order to rediscover the Qname -> namespace URI mapping, which is kind of hard to do given that attribute value readers tend not to be XML parsers and don't have access to the tree (unless they happen to be an XSLT application).
Given that many of the things that people want to do with the
proposed extensions to atom:link look very "RDF-like", it might be useful to
rely on a proposal that comes from RDF-land...
That doesn't come from RDF land -- it is a Note by two authors.
....Roy
