Re: Yee's RDF

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:21:20 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:

> We now have a "well-formed" copy of Martha Yee's RDF, temporarily at:
>
>   http://www.kcoyle.net/temp/ycrschemardf.rdf



Umm, I don' think the RDF above is well-formed because it contains
many occurrences two undefined entities (&xsd; and &owl;). I suppose
someone will want to declare these entities at the top of the RDF
file, but I don't know how to do that. (Sigh.) Alternatively, maybe
these entities were really suppose to be namespaces? In which case
xsd was not defined and all the of the occurrences of &owl; should be
changed to owl:.

I find that a pair of tools called xmllint and xsltproc are VERY good
for validating and transforming XML, respectively. These utilities
run on Windows as well as Unix (Linux/Macintosh) computers. I also
find the RDF Validator to be a useful tool. [1] When the RDF is
valid, it outputs cool graphs literally illustrating how things are
related to each other.

[1] http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/

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Received on Mon Dec 10 2007 - 13:17:01 EST