RE: What is the URI of Truth?

Please see my recent posting of a proposed solution to this
very problem -- i.e. the mapping between namespace qualified
names and semantics.

Cheers,

Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN [mailto:champin@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr]
> Sent: 11 June, 2001 12:13
> To: Sean "B." Palmer
> Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: Re: What is the URI of Truth?
> 
> 
> On 08 Jun 2001 17:31:25 +0100, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
> > I don't particularly agree that it is a
> > critical apect of the SW to be able to define non-ambiguous 
> interplay
> > between different namespacing mechanisms,
> 
> I'm not sure I get your point here:
> You seem to distinguish XML-namespaces from RDF-namespaces.
> 
> I do not know what *a* RDF-namespace is : RDF only knows of *one*
> namespace : URIs.
> 
> A problem with XML-namespaces is that are not part of the 
> URI-space, but
> rather of the a space which elements are <uri, xml-name> pairs. Hence
> the mapping-by-concatenation issue.
> This problem is proper to the RDF 1.0 XML syntax, because it needs to
> convert Qnames to URIs. I agree it is not critical to the SW.
> 
> Another problem with XML-namespaces is that, in current 
> practice, their
> is a semantical ambiguity with the URI identifying them (can an http:
> URI identify a namespace ?).
> This problem, IMHO, is critical in many respects, since it raises
> questions about the semantics of URIs. There is no "interplay between
> different namespacing mechanisms" as you wrote: URIs are the global
> namespace of the SW.
> 
>   Pierre-Antoine
> 
>

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