- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:51:27 -0500
- To: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@acm.org>
- Cc: ogbujic@ccf.org, "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>, Andrew Eisenberg <andrew.eisenberg@us.ibm.com>, public-grddl-comments@w3.org, w3c-xsl-query@w3.org
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 13:24 -0600, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > On 24 Jul 2007, at 13:14 , Chimezie Ogbuji wrote: > > > ... > > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:12 -0600, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> It seems to me to be a surprising and unfortunate lurch toward a > >> closed-world assumption, to require that the RDF representation of a > >> document originate with, or be authorized by, the creator of the > >> document. I think that's a pretty severe design error, and one that > >> surprises me, coming from the Semantic Web activity. > > > > We should be careful not to conflate closed-world assumption (which is > > specifically a feature of inference - GRDDL has nothing to do with > > inference) with functional data transformations. > > Except, of course, that the logic of the design, as I have > understood it so far, relies on an inference something like: > > The author did not point to this transformation from > the document, nor did the namespace owner point to this > transformation from the namespace name. > > Therefore, the transformation is not a faithful rendition > of the author's intentions. No; only that if the author didn't point directly nor indirectly to the transformation, we don't know whether it's a faithful rendition or not. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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