Mozilla makes a lot of use of putting the "about" attribute on RDF containers such as RDF:Seq etc. For instance see panels.rdf in the mozProfile directory: <RDF:Seq about="urn:sidebar:current-panel-list">. Unfortunately this is not allowed in RDF. Containers can only have the ID attribute. So really it ought to be: <RDF:Seq ID="current-panel-list"> and the 'ref' to this would be "panels.rdf#current-panel-list" rather than using the URN. At the moment a lot of RDF in Mozilla is not valid according to the RDF Syntax Recommendation.

I know. Unfortunately, we need to be able to do this. Fixing bug 24546 "fully" (e.g., adding extended template syntax) would mitigate the need, but I doubt we'd retrofit things.

As a coping mechanism for not having resources to fix this, it might be worth making explicit that this variant on RDF syntax is only used within the Browser itself, ie. not proposed for Web channel formats, embedded metadata in HTML content etc etc., and (documented from somewhere) that this is a bug. A second approach would be to fix (maybe it does this already) the RDF parser to accept an RDF Description element with an rdf:type property pointing to RDF:Bag, ie. avoid the special convenience syntax that RDF provides. This would mean that rdf:li would need replacing with rdf:_1 explicit numbering since the rdf:li convience construct would also not be allowed.

This is no longer an issue as it is made legal by: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/ specifically: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20010906/

tever is not RDF QA anymore