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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 "You have the wrong number." "Eh? Isn't that the Odeon?" "No, this is the Great Theater of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night." -- Robertson Davies, "The Cunning Man" 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/ 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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