Re: dropped Basic spec?

On 8/8/11 1:19 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:
> Regarding complexity, we need to consider the audience. I think that 
> JSON-LD implementations will pretty much need to implement most of the 
> spec (although normalization, expansion, and framing could be 
> considered to be optional bits by an implementation, IMO). I think the 
> basic spec was really targeted at publishers, to give them an easy way 
> into it. 

Yes.

> Other than algorithmic descriptions, the main things in the advanced 
> spec, not in the basic spec was chaining, multi-valued properties and 
> typed-literals. If people think this necessary, we could move these to 
> "Advanced Concepts", or include more in the introduction about basic use.

Yes, re. exploitation of "Advanced Concepts" partitioning to remove 
dangerous front-door distractions :-)


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