[oslc-core] Meeting notes and using rdf:RDF as root element

Steve K Speicher sspeiche at us.ibm.com
Thu Jul 8 14:38:55 EDT 2010


> > Furthermore, when I try to generate RDF using
> > the toolkit, it will not conform to the OSLC subset so I'll have to 
write
> > my own serializer. We are therefore in the paradoxical situation of
> > embracing RDF as our data model yet making life more difficult for
> > implementers that want to use RDF toolkits.
> 
> This could be a real issue and probably warrants some testing with
> Jena and other RDF serializers. Can anybody comment in this issue?
> 

I inquired on this to a team that I know has been using RDF/XML (Jena) for 
some time, they said they didn't have this issue.  In fact, they had to do 
some unnatural acts to remove <rdf:RDF> root element, so adding that back 
has made things much simpler.

- Steve





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