Re: CURIEs vs. QNames

/ Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu> was heard to say:
| What if I want to express multiple Dublin Core properties in my page?
| Do I really need to write the Dublin Core URI multiple times?

That would work. I'd prefer to simply allow

  <dc:creator>Norman Walsh</dc:creator>

to appear in the HTML, but I guess that's a non-starter because of
legacy browser behavior.

| Do I
| really need to start using XSLT just so I can define URI
| abbreviations? Or should I simply violate the TAG's recommendation
| that QNames not be used as URI abbreviations,

Yes. That's what everyone else does, that's what everyone expects.
Doing something else is going to be more confusing.

| and then be stuck with
| a mostly-working-but-not-quite-complete abbreviation scheme?

Yes.

| I certainly understand the worries about the specific syntax that
| will be used for CURIEs, and the task force is actively discussing
| various options right now. However, I don't understand this reaction
| to the CURIE concept.

Conceptually, I think it's going to be confusing to introduce another
syntax for something that can almost always be represented as a QName
without introducing a new syntax. Syntactically, I think overloading
the QName syntax is just plain wrong.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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