RDF DTD ?
Dan Brickley
Daniel.Brickley at bristol.ac.uk
Sat Mar 20 18:39:56 GMT 1999
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Patrice Bonhomme wrote:
> I am looking for an RDF DTD ? Why is there a "Formal Grammar" for RDF and not
> a DTD ?
There is no DTD for the RDF syntax because RDF data is likely to be
embedded in a variety of different document types. Also the RDF
syntax uses a variety of element and attribute names to represent
intermingled classes, properties and resource drawing on multiple
independently defined vocabularies. This is pretty much impossible to
anticipate in a single monolithic "RDF DTD".
Dan
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