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ISSUE-10: Mark things as deprecated

PROPOSED: Mark certain features of RDF as "archaic". Document and discuss them, and their alternatives, in an Archaic Features Recommendation. Remove them from the main specifications, except for a pointer to that document. Discuss them with text like this:

       This is an archaic feature of RDF.  It was included in the
       RDF specifications published in 1999 and 2004, but we no
       longer recommend it be used in new deployments.  Some existing
       software uses it, however, and it will be present in some
       archival data, so general purpose software must handle it
       correctly.  See @@@ for a more information.

These features are ISSUE-12, ISSUE-13, ISSUE-24...27


ISSUE-12: xs:string

PROPOSED: Mark xs:string as archaic for use in RDF, recommending use of plain literals instead. Recommend that systems silently convert xs:string data to plain literals.

ISSUE-13: XMLLiteral

PROPOSED: Mark rdf:XMLLiterals as archaic, recommending use of plain literals (containing charters which may be XML) instead. Remove them from the formal semantics, but keep them in the RDF/XML grammar and parser tests cases.

ISSUE-24: Containers

PROPOSED: Mark all aspects of Containers as archaic. Remove them from the formal semantics, but keep them in the RDF/XML grammar and parser test cases.

ISSUE-25: Reification

PROPOSED: postpone any action on RDF Reificiation until a GRAPHS design is agreed upon.

ISSUE-26: rdf:about instead of rdf:ID

PROPOSED: Mark rdf:ID (on node elements) as archaic, but keep it in the RDF/XML grammar and parser test cases.

ISSUE-27: rdf:value

PROPOSED: Mark rdf:value as archaic.