[XML-SIG] RDF Parser -> PyXML

[James Tauber]

> Maybe I'm missing something here, but ... Isn't any RDF description a
> well-formed XML document?

Yes

> and don't RDF 'parsers' typically operate on
> top of XML parsers? atleast 4RDF seems to operate that way.

As does Redfoot's RDF parser.

> That you then perform some processing, further correctness checks and
> so on is expected for a specific XML application.
> 
> Given that, I'm not so sure I understand what an RDF parser would do
> that a plain XML parser with a SAX interface wouldn't.

An RDF parser sits on top of an XML parser and converts RDF's various
serializations into triples. 

James