Re: meeting record: 2005-11-15 HTML TF telecon

/ "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@w3.org> was heard to say:
[...]
| CURIEs
|
|    Mark: Norm's biggest objection was that there might be two meanings to
|    a given abc:def pattern; one interpreted using namespaces and one not.
|    But I point out that this ambiguity already exists and in practice is
|    resolved in context. 

Where does it already exist and how is it resolved using a context
other than the in-scope namespaces?

[...]
|    Mark: the issue may only be that RDF/XML uses the term "QName" too
|    often. I described this in mail: "[9]RE: CURIEs vs. QNames". I believe
|    that CURIE can continue to use ':' without ambiguity, just as is done
|    in XPath

In XPath, tokens of the form

  NCName ":" NCName

*are* QNames. The binding for the prefix comes from the in-scope
namespaces and it is an error to use a prefix which is not bound.

|    Ralph: so if there is no actual ambiguity, I would argue that it
|    increases the learning curve for users to have different syntaxes for
|    QName and Abbreviated URI

I still don't see how there could possibly *not* be ambiguity. Can
someone show me an example where the element "x:y" contains a CURIE of
the form "x:y" and demonstrate that there isn't ambiguity?

Assuming it can be done, I still think overloading the ":" is going to
be more confusing to users rather than less confusing.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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