Proposal for clarification of RDF from Rick Jelliffe on 2001-06-20 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from April to June 2001) (original) (raw)

See attached a proposal for clarifying the syntax of RDF.

I have found it extremely difficult to pin down RDF's syntax from its specs. The reasons are well-known: the treatment of namespace, etc.

To overcome these, here is a concrete and straight-forward proposal which brings RDF back into mainstream XML usage, and yet retains compatability (as far as I am aware) with existing specifications.

The proposal is in the form of a DTD and certain conventions.

Cheers Rick Jelliffe

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