- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:19:43 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, RDFA Working Group <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
perhaps if we ask "why not add it?", is there a good reason not to?
Ivan Herman wrote:
> I believe you. But that by itself is not a reason not to have it as part of the core API. If it is there, everyone can count on it by default.
>
> (One could argue the same about the Namespace facility I was referring to in Python/RDFLib. After all, it is nothing else than a dictionary, in Python terms, mapping terms to URI References. Anyone could do that, but it surely damn useful that it is just there...)
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> Ivan
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> On Oct 10, 2010, at 12:06 , Toby Inkster wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:44:16 +0100
>> Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
>>
>>> foaf('name');
>> This is probably something that doesn't need to be done as part of the
>> API itself. Individual scripters or library/toolkit authors can very
>> easily implement something like that on top of the API.
>>
>> function prefixMapper (p)
>> {
>> return function (s) { return p+s; };
>> }
>>
>> var foaf = prefixMapper('http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/');
>> var dc = prefixMapper('http://purl.org/dc/terms/');
>>
>> window.alert(foaf('name'));
>> window.alert(dc('title'));
>>
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>>
>>
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