• To: Joe English <jenglish@f...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: Why is there no schema for RSS?
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:09:01 -0700
• References: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E0696F88C@r...> <200208300239.g7U2dW330954@d...>

Joe English wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> RSS 0.92 was developed by Dave Winer, who is of the
> "here's what a sample document looks like" school
> of formal specifications :-)
> 
> Regarding the RDF schema for RSS 1.0, as far as I know --
> please correct me if I'm wrong -- an RDF schema doesn't actually
> imply any notion of "validity"; it just makes statements like
> "resources of class X may have properties of type Y with a domain
> of type Z".  (And since any such statement is true already,
> regardless of whether or not it is asserted by an RDF schema,
> I suspect that RDFS is meant to be informative rather than
> prescriptive.)

I don't see domain and range constraints as being useful unless they are
prescriptive. And I'm not the only one:

http://www.w3.org/RDF/Implementations/SiRPAC/Validation.html
-- 
 Paul Prescod

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