- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 09:07:45 -0400
- To: RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
[Patrick Stickler] > > On 2002-06-05 5:10, "ext Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > [Bill de hÓra] > > > > > >>> I disagree, Dan. The rdfs:isDefinedBy property does not point > >>> to a namespace, but to a resource. > >> > >> Here's the question: Are XML namespaces RDF resources? If a > >> collection of names identified by a URI reference can be an RDF > >> resource, then an XML namespace can be an RDF resource. > >> > > > > The actual value of an xml namespace (the identifier of a collection of > > names) is a URI reference. There could be a convention (or it could be in > > the Rec) that such a URI does identify an xml namespace as an RDF resource. > > After all, the uri reference for a namespace is supposed to be unique. > > > > An RDF resource can identify anything discussable, and a namespace is > > discussable. > > > > It would make a lot of sense to me. > > I fully agree, and see no problems with a URI denoting a namespace, as > a collection of names, but then that URI should not denote anything > else, such as a functional vocabulary, a schema, a doctype, a "namespace > document", etc. etc. > D'accord. Tom P
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