Language Context from James M Snell on 2014-11-03 (public-socialweb@w3.org from November 2014)

From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 09:03:41 -0800
To: "public-socialweb@w3.org" <public-socialweb@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABP7Rbd4rOQO6j=A8vKQnVqRMPUu+S-q4CbXBKvOe5DM93W_RQ@mail.gmail.com>

The "Natural Language Value" construct in AS2 was originally added
before the serialization of AS2 was formally based on JSON-LD. The
mechanism is intended to provide a default language context for the
document, but it's not entirely compatible with the JSON-LD mechanisms
and requires a pre-processing step to be implemented before successful
JSON-LD processing.

At this point, I think it makes sense to simply remove the Natural
Language Value construct and rely specifically on the JSON-LD
mechanisms to eliminate the additional pre-processing step. Doing so
makes things a bit more reliant on JSON-LD but simplifies things
overall.

- James

Received on Monday, 3 November 2014 17:04:28 UTC