- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:48:54 -0500
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: Carsten Lutz <clu@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de>, Michael Smith <msmith@clarkparsia.com>, Uli Sattler <sattler@cs.man.ac.uk>, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, public-owl-wg <public-owl-wg@w3.org>, ewallace@cme.nist.gov
On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> I will express my distaste for their choice to use namespace >> prefixes inside strings exactly once. >> -Alan >> On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:51 AM, Jeremy Carroll wrote: >> [snipped: revolting description of the use of namespace prefix >> inside attribute values, associated lossage, and workaround] > > > One of the problems with OWL built on top of RDF built on top of > XML built on top of Unicode is that any problem with any of the > layers bites sooner or later. Yes. > > The use of namespace prefixes inside strings is well-established, > e.g. in XSLT, but it causes difficulties - this is one of them. > > I don't think that XML Schema uses these things exactly once, but > then I am not a schema expert, e.g. I never read part xml schema > part 1, I just read part 2. Meant that I will express my distaste once, not that they only use this construct once :) -Alan
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