Last week, we discussed the issue of CURIEs or QNames in XHTML1.1+RDFa. Mark made a number of good points, in particular that the use of QNames is actually *wrong*, as evidenced by the fact that SPARQL has chosen to not use QNames, but instead has defined a grammar that looks more or less exactly like CURIEs. Mark proposed that we use the same approach: build into our specification a grammar for what we expect these values to look like, without having to reference an outside specification. After a few days of thinking about this, I agree with this solution. We are basically doing exactly what SPARQL did. Neither they nor we are trying to define a reusable concept. It's too bad that we can't get together and actually *define* this concept, but we need to worry about RDFa right now, and that's the way to solve it. Any thoughts, complaints, objections, please send. -BenReceived on Thursday, 12 July 2007 18:30:14 GMT
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