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One for the FAQs, from Jeen on swig list:

rdf:about is not an actual property, but is simply a bit of syntax in

the RDF/XML serialization that is used to denote the subject of a

triple. It does not occur in the RDF graph and can not be queried

through SPARQL (or any other RDF query language that I know of).

For example:

<rdf:Description rdf:about="#myCar">

<ex:hasColor>red</ex:hasColor>

</rdf:Description>

The 'rdf:about' attribute is not a property, it just denotes that

"myCar" is the subject of the RDF triple (:myCar ex:hasColor "red").

Graham provides the spec refs.