On Oct 25, 2010, at 23:13 , Toby Inkster wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:50:03 -0500 > Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com> wrote: > >> Yeah.... that's just ugly. I think we should say the terms are put >> in the list in the order they are declared, and that it is the FIRST >> case-insensitive match that counts. > > But profiles are written in RDF, and the expected behaviour of RDF > implementations is that the order the triples are expressed in a file > is not significant (and note that in my example both "agent" and > "Agent" were defined in the same profile). Asking implementations to > take notice of the order of term declarations in a profile will cause a > lot of hassle for people building RDFa parsers on top of off-the-shelf > RDF libraries. > Fully agree. The order disappears by the time the triples are used for anything. Ivan > -- > Toby A Inkster > <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> > <http://tobyinkster.co.uk> > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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