RE: literals must be self-evident

Hi Dan,

Something I am not clear on. You said:

> it's essential that the interpretation of
> an RDF document is a function of the document alone,
> and doesn't vary according to the contents of other
> documents.

and later said

> I think
> the solution there is to accept that RDF/XML syntax
> is ugly and persue XML-schema-based approaches
> to getting logical meaning out of less constrained
> XML.

I would have thought that the XML Schema was a separate
document, and it is important to let people update the
external schema documents and make new inferences based
on those changes.

Is a more accurate statement of your intent that "the
truth value of statements in an RDF document shall not
change as a result of changes to any external document, unless
that external document has been specified as required for the
correct interpretation of the RDF document"?

Ron

Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2001 15:44:23 UTC