Re: editorial comments on CURIE spec

I somehow garbled that first sentence.

What I meant was: "given the short timeframe, **I implemented** the  
straight-forward changes, except #6."

-Ben

On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Ben Adida wrote:

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> Ralph, Mark,
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> Given the short timeframe before submitting these docs to Guus and  
> the clear path to implementing the straight-forward changes below.  
> The only point I did not address was #6, regarding the preemptive  
> argument against using XML entities. Mark, if you've got time to  
> say a few words about that, that would be great.
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> The new CURIE spec is at the following URL, which will be stable  
> from now on for this version.
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> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-10-27-CURIE
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> -Ben
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> On Oct 27, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Ralph R. Swick wrote:
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>> Re: "CURIE Syntax 1.0" 20 October 2005
>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-10-21-curie
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>> several recommendations:
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>> 1. Help readers understand the status of this document, specifically:
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>> 2. Change the style sheet to be the Editor's Draft style sheet, per
>>    "Style for Group-internal Drafts" [1] as this is not yet a W3C  
>> Note.
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>>    [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/03/28-editor-style.html
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>> 3. Add "produced in the context of the RDF-in-HTML Task Force
>>    of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment and HTML
>>    Working Groups" to the Status of this Document section, with
>>    links to [2, 3, 4] respectively.
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>>    [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/
>>    [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/
>>    [4] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/
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>> 4. In 1 Motivation, add "URIs can be expressed /+in XML+/ using  
>> QNames.
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>> 5. In 2 Usage, clarify whether an empty namespace prefix (":foo") is
>>    meant to be interpreted the same as an absent namespace prefix
>>    ("foo").  Both are currently specified to use the "current base  
>> URL"
>>    but it might be more natural (esp. under our Tuesday discussion)
>>    to use the current default namespace.
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>> 6. 2.2 Ambiguities.  Some readers will ask why we're proposing a new
>>    mechanism rather than use XML entities.  I recommend we anticipate
>>    that question with an answer somewhere close this example.
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>> 7. The last example in 2.2 declares 'company' as a namespace prefix
>>    then uses something else that hasn't been declared.  This obscures
>>    the intention of the example.
>>   used
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