RE: enforcing the prohibition



> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-rdf-text-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rdf-text-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sandro Hawke
> Sent: 22 May 2009 01:27
> To: Pat Hayes
> Cc: Axel Polleres; public-rdf-text@w3.org
> Subject: enforcing the prohibition
> 
> 
> > > One thing I am not sure still: It was pointed out that we cannot
> > > prevent people from writing graphs using rdf:text as a datatype
> > > explicitly.
> > > Is that a problem?
> >
> > Well, I think we can very actively discourage them from doing so, and
> > warning them to expect trouble, and exactly what to expect, if they
> > do. In fact, nothing will actually break if they do, unless they
> > expect these things to mean the same as plain literals without using
> > datatype entailment. Its more likely that they, the publishers. won't
> > have any problems, but some poor schmuk the other side of the world
> > won't get their queries answered properly. But if the spec has plainly
> > said this using rdf:text (or whatever) as a dataype will cause these
> > problems, and it does, then its going to be easy for people to find
> > the culprit, which I think is all that we really need to do. Social
> > pressure will do the rest: blogs will immediately point out that XXX's
> > RDF is corrupted with the forbidden datatype, etc..
> 
> I'm neutral on this option, but one more stick we *could* use is to
> require RIF systems to reject RDF graphs that use rdf:text as a
> datatype.

This seems harsh.  "Be liberal with what you accept."

 Andy


>  RIF already does this with the rif:iri, to try to make sure
> it doesn't leak out.
> 
>      ...documents importing RDF graphs containing typed literals of the
>      form "http://iri"^^rif:iri must be rejected.
> 
>             -- http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/SWC

> 
> We haven't yet added any ImportsRejectionTests to check on this, but we
> plan to.  I don't think OWL 2 such a notion, and I wouldn't want to add
> it just for this.
> 
>       -- Sandro

Received on Friday, 22 May 2009 09:56:56 UTC