This documents known errors in WD-rdf-syntax-19981008. Further comments on the original document or these errata may be found in the archive of the comment mailing list.
The first example is missing a namespace declaration:
<RDF
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core#"
xmlns:l="http://mycorp.com/schemas/my-schema#">
<Description about="http://www.webnuts.net/Jan97.html">
<dc:Subject
rdf:value="020 - Library Science"
l:Classification="Dewey Decimal Code"/>
</Description>
</RDF>
The second example is missing a namespace declaration and a Description start and end tag:
<RDF
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax#"
xmlns:n="http://www.nist.gov/units/">
<Description about="John_Smith">
<n:weight>
<rdf:Description>
<rdf:value>200</rdf:value>
<n:units rdf:resource="http://www.nist.gov/units/Pounds"/>
</rdf:Description>
</n:weight>
</Description>
</RDF>
The second example is missing two Description start and end tags, one each in the dc:Contributor and the dc:Relation statements:
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core#"
xmlns:dcq="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_qualifiers#">
<rdf:Description about="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/05contents.html">
<dc:Title>DLIB Magazine - The Magazine for Digital Library Research
- May 1998</dc:Title>
<dc:Description>D-LIB magazine is a monthly compilation of
contributed stories, commentary, and briefings.</dc:Description>
<dc:Contributor>
<rdf:Description>
<dcq:AgentType rdf:resource=
"http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_qualifiers#Editor"/>
<rdf:value>Amy Friedlander</rdf:value>
</rdf:Description>
</dc:Contributor>
<dc:Publisher>Corporation for National Research Initiatives</dc:Publisher>
<dc:Date>1998-01-05</dc:Date>
<dc:Type>electronic journal</dc:Type>
<dc:Subject>
<rdf:Bag>
<rdf:li>library use studies</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>magazines and newspapers</rdf:li>
</rdf:Bag>
</dc:Subject>
<dc:Format>text/html</dc:Format>
<dc:Identifier>urn:issn:1082-9873</dc:Identifier>
<dc:Relation>
<rdf:Description>
<dcq:RelationType rdf:resource=
"http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_qualifiers#IsPartOf"/>
<rdf:value resource="http://www.dlib.org"/>
</rdf:Description>
</dc:Relation>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
The third example is missing a Description start and end tag in the dc:Relation statement:
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core#"
xmlns:dcq="http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_qualifiers#">
<rdf:Description about=
"http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/miller/05miller.html">
<dc:Title>An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework</dc:Title>
<dc:Creator>Eric J. Miller</dc:Creator>
<dc:Description>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is an
infrastructure that enables the encoding, exchange and reuse of
structured metadata. rdf is an application of xml that imposes needed
structural constraints to provide unambiguous methods of expressing
semantics. rdf additionally provides a means for publishing both
human-readable and machine-processable vocabularies designed to
encourage the reuse and extension of metadata semantics among
disparate information communities. the structural constraints rdf
imposes to support the consistent encoding and exchange of
standardized metadata provides for the interchangeability of separate
packages of metadata defined by different resource description
communities. </dc:Description>
<dc:Publisher>Corporation for National Research Initiatives</dc:Publisher>
<dc:Subject>
<rdf:Bag>
<rdf:li>machine-readable catalog record formats</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>applications of computer file organization and
access methods</rdf:li>
</rdf:Bag>
</dc:Subject>
<dc:Rights>Copyright @ 1998 Eric Miller</dc:Rights>
<dc:Type>Electronic Document</dc:Type>
<dc:Format>text/html</dc:Format>
<dc:Language>en</dc:Language>
<dc:Relation>
<rdf:Description>
<dcq:RelationType rdf:resource=
"http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core_qualifiers#IsPartOf"/>
<rdf:value resource="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/05contents.html"/>
</rdf:Description>
</dc:Relation>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
The second Description element is missing the closing "/":
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-rdf-syntax#"
xmlns:pics="http://www.w3.org/TR/xxxx/WD-PICS-labels#"
xmlns:gcf="http://www.gcf.org/v2.5">
<rdf:Description about="http://w3.org/PICS/Overview.html" bagID="L01"
gcf:suds="0.5"
gcf:density="0"
gcf:color.hue="1"/>
<rdf:Description about="http://w3.org/PICS/Underview.html" bagID="L02"
gcf:subject="2"
gcf:density="1"
gcf:color.hue="1"/>
<rdf:Description aboutEach="#L01"
pics:by="John Doe"
pics:on="1994.11.05T08:15-0500"
pics:until="1995.12.31T23:59-0000"/>
<rdf:Description aboutEach="#L02"
pics:by="Jane Doe"
pics:on="1994.11.05T08:15-0500"
pics:until="1995.12.31T23:59-0000"/>
</rdf:RDF>