rdf:resource="..." vs. resource="..."

• From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
• Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 05:12:05 -0500
• To: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
• Message-ID: <3906C0F5.B563EBC6@w3.org>

I'm working on an XSLT-base RDF parser[1]. I got thru
2.2.1. Basic Serialization Syntax just fine, including:
  [9] resourceAttr   ::= 'resource="' URI-reference '"'
	-- https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222
but then in 2.2.2. Basic Abbreviated Syntax I see this example
using rdf:resource=, rather than resource=:
  <rdf:RDF>
    <rdf:Description about="https://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila">
      <s:Creator rdf:resource="https://www.w3.org/staffId/85740"/>
    </rdf:Description>
    <rdf:Description about="https://www.w3.org/staffId/85740">
      <v:Name>Ora Lassila</v:Name>
      <v:Email>lassila@w3.org</v:Email>
    </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>
Is this supposed to give the same model as:
  <rdf:RDF>
    <rdf:Description about="https://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila">
      <s:Creator resource="https://www.w3.org/staffId/85740"/>
    </rdf:Description>
    <rdf:Description about="https://www.w3.org/staffId/85740">
      <v:Name>Ora Lassila</v:Name>
      <v:Email>lassila@w3.org</v:Email>
    </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>
or as:
  <rdf:RDF>
    <rdf:Description about="https://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila">
      <s:Creator>
        <rdf:Description resource="https://www.w3.org/staffId/85740"/>
      </s:Creator>
    </rdf:Description>
    <rdf:Description about="https://www.w3.org/staffId/85740">
      <v:Name>Ora Lassila</v:Name>
      <v:Email>lassila@w3.org</v:Email>
    </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>
If so, where is this specified? I looked hard, and I can't find it.
If this idiom is intended to be a consequence of using XML namespaces,
	https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114
it's not. See the last example under 5.3 Uniqueness of Attributes
in particular.
See also:
Myth #4: Unprefixed attribute names are in XML namespaces
https://www.xml.com/pub/2000/03/08/namespaces/myth1.html
The same comment applies to about, ID, bagID, aboutEach,
aboutEachPrefix,
type, and perhaps the _1, _2, ... attributes.
I suggest you define the general case to be the rdf:resource case,
and specify that for rdf:Description, an unprefixed attribute
called resource should be treated as rdf:resource.
[1] https://www.w3.org/XML/2000/04rdf-parse/rdfp.xsl
-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C https://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Wednesday, 26 April 2000 06:13:43 UTC