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Understanding RDF

  • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
  • To: xml-dev <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:40:09 -0600

understanding rdf
I keep thinking I understand RDF and then I look at DCD and think "I 
guess I don't." DCD is supposed to be an RDF vocabulary, right? I know
that it uses some extensions to RDF (argh!), but even so, I don't see
how it works.

Rdf :: = [ <rdf:RDF> ] description * [</rdf:RDF>]

It is odd to me that the RDF wrappers are optional and that not even an 
RDF identifying attribute or processing instruction is required, but okay 
let's presume that we "know" that a DCD is an RDF and have just left off 
the wrapper elements. That means that the root DCD element is a 
description.

description ::= typedNode
typedNode ::= <typeName ...> property* </typeName>

But DCD says

DCD ::= <DCD> elementDef * </DCD>

(I presume...I can't actually find a grammar in the DCD spec. but I 
haven't looked hard...it certainly isn't in the table of contents)

So what are the properties of the DCD node? Just ElementDef and
AttributeDef?
Am I to understand that these are vector-valued properties?

People complain about SGML minimization, but RDF abbreviation is much 
more complicated. Perhaps someone can walk me through the expansion of 
A DCD document into completely described nodes and properties.

 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
 http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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