The re-energized RDFCore working group continued its brisk work updating the various RDF specifications. They have released an update of the RDF/XML Syntax Specification working draft. The RDF/XML syntax is still being specified separately from the fundamental data model, a move which many in the RDF community have been advocating. From the announcement:
The most significant changes since the 06 September 2001 working
draft are:
- Most of the document is new
- The grammar is now expressed using the XML Infoset to create a
SAX-like stream of events which is then parsed
- The grammar was updated to remove rdf:aboutEach
- Added the mapping to the RDF Model as expressed by N-Triples
- Added a non-normative RELAX NG schema (plain text and XML)
- Added a serialisation section
- Added an introduction to the RDF/XML syntax
In addition, the March 2001 release of DAML+OIL has been published as a W3C note, along with several companion notes:
These activities appear to be making progress along the announced coordination points between RDF/RDFS and DAML+OIL.