- From: Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN <champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:56:34 +0200
- To: "McBride, Brian" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, ML RDF-interest <www-rdf-interest@w3c.org>
In a personal communication, "McBride, Brian" wrote:
> >From section 2.2
>
> RDF also requires the XML namespace facility to precisely
> associate each property with the schema that defines the
> property; see Section 2.2.3., Schemas and Namespaces.
>
> and from sectino 2.2.3
>
> Namespaces are simply a way to tie a specific use of a word in
> context to the dictionary (schema) where the intended definition
> is to be found. In RDF, each predicate used in a statement must
> be identified with exactly one namespace, or schema.
>
> I had taken these imply that there is a correct namespace for a
> property and that an XML serialization of a model MUST use it.
So I guess I have spent to much time without re-reading the spec !
Sorry...
But the implication here are quite deep :
that means that any property or class MUST have the form <schema>#<id> ??
How limitative !...
And then I don't see the utility of rdfs:isDefinedIn property...
Pierre-Antoine
--- Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur
Whatever is said in Latin sounds important.
Received on Friday, 28 July 2000 09:46:25 UTC