[oslc-core] Proposal for Issue-25: Encoding of UI preview label

[Steve K Speicher]

> Something I need to be clear on: is it the case that this issue applies 
only
> to UI preview because UI preview is the only case in OSLC where a 
resource 
> is defined to be XML and not RDF? 
> Since XMLLiteral is defined by RDF, an XML-based resource definition 
does 
> not "have access to" its definition (it's outside of XML, and going 
outside 
> of XML for its definition is not desireable)? 

This issue is really about that the content of these XML elements really 
should just be strings and not embedded XML content, regarding of how the 
value type is defined (i.e. XMLLiteral definition in RDF/XML or complex 
content in XML).  It just happens we were down a path "make our XML 
consumable by RDF/XML parsers as well" which added to some confusion.  The 
issue originated due to the complexities of the primary consumer of this 
content is HTML/JS, so having to parse the content and convert to HTML 
tags was onerous compared with just grabbing the content of the 
title/description and just jamming into a node.

Hope that adds some clarity.

Thanks,
Steve Speicher | IBM Rational Software | (919) 254-0645