RDF can be serialized as XML, but the XML tool chain is not well suitable to process RDF. That's what a meant when I early commented I was happy to contribute proper DOAP/RDF infrastructure to projects-new.a.o.
Back to the current issues... see my comments inline. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:51 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 May 2015 at 18:00, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: > > I'm not a RDF expert: if someone with more knowledge on this can join, it > > would be really useful > > > > But apart from seeing that most of the documentation was talking about > pmc > > instead of PMC [1] (I just had to fix 1 place), I was convinced that the > > correct case is lowercase when reading asfext definition [2] > > once again, I'm not an expert then could misinterpret the content, but I > read > > <rdf:Property rdf:about="http://projects.apache.org/ns/asfext#pmc";> as a > > definition of pmc field, in lowercase > > Perhaps; I don't know either. > It's a bit odd that the original code used PMC rather than pmc. > The term must be used exactly in the same way it is defined by the namespace/vocabulary/ontology, otherwise won't be processed as expected. > Also PMC is an abbreviation. RDF is also an abbreviation, and note > that the XML tag is <rdf:RDF>, not <rdf:rdf>. > > It looks like namespaces (i.e. rdf, asfext) are lower-case, but > classes/properties (?) may be upper (rdf:RDF), lower (foaf:name) or > mixed case (foaf:Person). > That's the best practice, yes: classes in UpperCamelCases, and properties in lowerCamelCase. The root element <rdf:RDF/> is a special case, not a regular term, but part of the RDF/XML serialization. Hope that helps. Cheers, -- Sergio Fernández Partner Technology Manager Redlink GmbH m: +43 6602747925 e: sergio.fernan...@redlink.co w: http://redlink.co
