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I took it the same way. But doesn't that violate the principle of XML as being self-describing? The document is now tied to a specific set of applications, rather than only being tied to any applications that are capable of reading and understanding a schema. I suspect either I or the spec are being a little pedantic here; given that there is a namespace specifier, the application will always know what it's dealing with, but something feels wrong about binding a description language to an application context. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of John Cowan Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 2:23 PM To: XML Dev Subject: Re: RDF considered optional Jeffrey E. Sussna wrote: > The RDF syntax spec states that "The RDF element is optional if the > content can be known to be RDF from the application context." > > Can anyone clarify exactly what is meant by "application context"? I take that to mean that if the application already knows it is dealing with RDF, no RDF element is required. It's just a container for the true RDF anyway. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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