- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:00:56 +0000
- To: "Web Ontology Language ((OWL)) Working Group WG" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > > I have satisfied myself that my colleagues do not have objection to the > proposed resolution, and I am happy to support it. Ooops - after further feedback, I am afraid I need to modify that. HP will abstain on this proposal, reflecting that we have some minority concerns ... - there are an excess of WDs with a claimed normative defn of CURIEs (the CURIE WD, an RDFa WD, and two XHTML 2.0 WDs) + a copy/paste solution would make this worse - the prefix binding issue that is not addressed with CURIEs is non-trivial (e.g. early versus late binding). - tension with the SPARQL not-a-CURIE construct - at least in the CURIE WD, the empty prefix is prebound to a specific namespace. - if we are going to use CURIEs in XML documents (such as the XML serialization of the functional syntax), then + we should be asking the XML Schema WG to extend the primitive base types of XML Schema 1.1 (Datatypes). + it is likely that XML tools, such as XSLT, will have difficulty in getting the prefix binding correct. - this TAG issue http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#abbreviatedURIs-56 In light of these concerns I personally would advocate a fairly conservative approach, of, at this stage: - citing the (alegedly moribund) CURIE WD, rather than using copy/paste - identifying in which contexts we expect users to be using CURIEs, rather than URIs. - letting the TAG know that we are an interested party with respect to their issue. A choice to use CURIEs would make it more difficult for us to advance past last call, before the TAG have resolved this issue. (I don't feel that I can in good faith vote for or against any particular resolution, without making a bigger issue of this with my colleagues than seems appropriate - so I ask the WG to accept that HP will abstain, without making the normally expected efforts to get unanimity). Jeremy
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