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• To: martind@n...
• Subject: Re: Interesting nodes are anonymous, was: Re: Meta-somethingorother (was the semantic web mega-permathread thing)
• From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@o...>
• Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:14:37 -0400
• Cc: "'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>, "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>, "'Joshua Allen'" <joshuaa@m...>
• In-reply-to: <000401c45096$fa882780$c801a8c0@DIDIERHOME>
• References: <000401c45096$fa882780$c801a8c0@DIDIERHOME>

On Jun 12, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Didier PH Martin wrote:
>>
>
> Don't get me wrong Jonathan, I am just having a hard time with RDF 
> syntax
> here. So let's say I do another version like this. Would it be still 
> an RDF
> statement that can be parsed by an RDF engine?
>
> <object xmlns="http://example.org/ex" xlink:type="extended">
> 	<SSN rdf:resource="uuid:ssn:1112223344"/>
>> 	<hasIncomeOf>1000000</hasIncomeOf>
>> 	<ownsHouse>
>> 		<House>
>> 			<hasAddress>1234 West Ridge Road</hasAddress>
>> 		</House>
>> 	</ownsHouse>
> 	<bank-transaction xlink:type="locator"
> xlink;href="urn:csb:1263-27389" />
> 	<bank-transaction xlink:type="locator"
> xlink;href="urn:csb:1263-38562" />
> </object>


you could do it this way:

<object xmlns="http://example.org/ex" xlink:type="extended">
...
	<bank-transaction rdf:resource="urn:csb:1263-27389" />

</object>

These are the rules for RDF "stripped syntax" (can be googled for more 
info). Basically it goes:

<Object>
	<property>
		<Object>
			<property />
			<property />
			<property>
				<Object />
			</property>
		</Object>
	</property>
</Object>

you can't just stick attributes on a property element. Attributes on an 
Object element are interpreted as literal properties.

>
> How would an RDF engine recognize that we are dealing with an RDF 
> statement?
> Do we need to enclose this in an <rdf> element or is there any other 
> rules
> an engine may use to recognize an RDF fragment.
>

That's a software issue. I'm assuming there is something that tells the 
parser what to parse.

Jonathan

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