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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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