WD-rdf-syntax-19980819

This documents known errors in WD-rdf-syntax-19980819. Further comments on the original document or these errata may be found in the archive of the comment mailing list.

Section 2.2.1

Last RDF/XML example before the EBNF for the basic abbreviated syntax; the s:Person element has the wrong closing tag; this example should read:

  <rdf:RDF>
    <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila">
      <s:Creator>
        <s:Person about="http://www.w3.org/staffId/85740">
          <v:Name>Ora Lassila</v:Name>
          <v:Email>lassila@w3.org</v:Email>
        </s:Person>
      </s:Creator>
    </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>

Section 2.2.2

Fourth and sixth RDF/XML examples; the resource attribute must have a namespace prefix to show that it is intended to be the RDF resource attribute rather than a property from the s namespace. The fourth example should read:

  <rdf:RDF>
    <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila">
      <s:Creator rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/staffId/85740"/>
    </rdf:Description>

    <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org/staffId/85740">
      <v:Name>Ora Lassila</v:Name>
      <v:Email>lassila@w3.org</v:Email>
    </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>

and the sixth example should read:

  <rdf:RDF>
    <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila">
      <s:Creator rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/staffId/85740"
         v:Name="Ora Lassila"
         v:Email="lassila@w3.org" />
    </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>

Eighth (final) example; the close tag on s:Person is incorrect; This example should read:

  <rdf:RDF>
    <rdf:Description about="http://www.w3.org/Home/Lassila">
      <s:Creator>
        <s:Person about="http://www.w3.org/staffId/85740">
          <v:Name>Ora Lassila</v:Name>
          <v:Email>lassila@w3.org</v:Email>
        </s:Person>
      </s:Creator>
    </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>

Section 7.2

In the value of the dc:Identifier property, the close tag is incorrect; it should be capitalized as:

      <dc:Identifier>
        <rdf:Bag ID="MirroredSites"> 
          <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.foo.com.au/cool.html"/>
          <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.foo.com.it/cool.html"/>
        </rdf:Bag>
      </dc:Identifier>

Section 7.4

In the second Dublin Core example, the value of the dc:Contributor property does not conform to the permitted RDF grammar as specified. The string value should be specified in attribute form as was done in the dc:Relation property:

      <dc:Contributor
        dcq:AgentType="dcq:Editor"
        rdf:value="Amy Friedlander"/>

We are revising the representation of "higher-order relations", having decided that the representation in 7.3 is not the direction we want to go. This will remove some of the confusion that resulted in this example being wrong.