- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:33:52 -0600
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, www-tag@w3.org, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 06:44 PM, pat hayes wrote: > RDF documents do not DESCRIBE fragments. They USE them. I have a triple: ex:John rdf:type <http://www.example.org/#Dog> . I grab http://www.example.org/, it's an RDF document that says (in part): <rdf:Description rdf:about="#Dog"> <dc:description>a dog, an animal with four legs</dc:description> </rdf:Description> According to the URI spec (via the links I cited), the #Dog is an XML element. I suspect that RDF wants it to be a thing with four legs. Which is John? > Nothing outside of RDF can specify what meaning RDF assigns to a > string of characters containing a hash mark. Sure, if RDF wants to live in its own little world, that's fine. But it's annoying to have some contradicting specs and I suspect it will run into problems when we try to put stuff together. -- Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com] "Curb your consumption," he said.
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