Re: Named graphs etc

On Mar 12, 2004, at 16:50, ext Jeremy Carroll wrote:

>
>
> Patrick Stickler wrote:
>
>> Technically, it's a trivial addition. In practice, though, it 
>> requires *every* RDF parser
>> to be updated. And since the new specs just required all the parsers 
>> to be revamped,
>> retested, etc. I don't think the parser folks would be very keen 
>> about *any* changes
>> so soon after the new specs.
>
>
> Realistically the time-to-deployment of any good ideas we have is 
> years not months ...
> And this isn't a huge change really.
>

True. Though I think the other arguments against a syntactic approach 
and for
a vocabulary based approach still strongly favor the vocabulary 
approach.

And uptake, given compatiblity with legacy systems/tools, will still be 
aided by
a solution that doesn't require re-tooling... so the number of years 
can still
be reduced.

Patrick

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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
patrick.stickler@nokia.com