Re: mailing list for rdf:text, namespace use

moved chris to bcc: (to remove him from the recipient's list) and added 
boris, since he was very active in the discussion.

A mailinglist would indeed make life easier.

Axel

Sandro Hawke wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I don't think there is a need to continue cc'ing the comments lists
>> for all the WGs on this thread.
>>
>> I'd like to consider this a task force of RIF, OWL, and I guess I18N, let you
>> guys do the work and then report back to the WGs.
>>
>> OK?
> 
> Ooops, yeah.   I've added www-archive to the cc list, so the e-mail is
> properly archived *somewhere*, at least.
> 
> Shall I request a new mailing list for this?   public-rdf-text@w3.org, I
> guess?    
> 
> One odd thing that occured to me (during my sleep, I think) about using
> the RDF namespace is that the rdf:text datatype will never be used in
> (existing) RDF serializations, because they already have a way to
> serialize such data.  Happily, this lets us avoid worrying about the
> constraint in RDF Syntax [1], "Any other names [in the RDF namespace]
> are not defined and SHOULD generate a warning when encountered".  We
> should note this in the spec, I think.  Note also that future RDF
> serializations might choose to use this, so they don't have to
> special-case language-tagged strings.
> 
>      -- Sandro
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-syntax-grammar-20040210/#section-Namespace


-- 
Dr. Axel Polleres, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
email: axel.polleres@deri.org  url: http://www.polleres.net/

Everything is possible:
rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:Resource.
rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subPropertyOf.
rdf:type rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subClassOf.
rdfs:subClassOf rdf:type owl:SymmetricProperty.