Re: Bug in RDF schema - uses incorrect namespace

It wasn't a bug: when RDF M+S became a REC in 1999, the Jan 2000 RDF
Schema namespace didn't exist. It is, I agree, a nuisance.

One might argue that the older M+S namespace doc at /1999/02/22-etc is a
normative part of the W3C REC, and not something to be updated so
casually. In practice I suspect you did the sensible thing...

Dan

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:

> The RDF schema spec, http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-schema
> specifies that the schema namespace is http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema
>
> However, the RDF 1.0 schema http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns
> actually uses the Schema *spec* http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-schema
> as a namespace.  This is clearly a bug, and causes schema validations
> to fail, apart from being wrong in general.
>
> I assume that we can fix http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns as a bug
> fix, a webmaster editorial fix.
>
> I have therefore fixed it on the web site.
>
> Tim Berners-Lee
> RDF user and assistant webmaster, w3.org
>