Re: Built-in infinite recursion in our spec? (related to ISSUE-73 and ISSUE-78)

On Feb 5, 2011, at 15:51 , Nathan wrote:

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> 
> Did we ever cover precedence and how to handle it when there are multiple conflicting entries in a profile?
> 
> for example:
> 
> [] rdfa:prefix "foo" ;
>    rdfa:uri "http://example.org/a" ;
>    rdfa:uri "http://example.org/b" .
> 
> or
> 
> [] rdfa:prefix "foo" ;
>    rdfa:uri "http://example.org/a" ;
> [] rdfa:prefix "foo" ;
>    rdfa:uri "http://example.org/b" .
> 
> or
> 
> [] rdfa:vocabulary "http://example.org/a" .
> [] rdfa:vocabulary "http://example.org/b" .
> [] rdfa:vocabulary "http://example.org/c" .
> 
> and similar, remembering of course that the triples in the graph are not ordered in any way.
> 

Actually, no. My distiller throws an extra warning for these cases, but it is indeterministic which mapping would prevail exactly for the reason you say. And I believe this should be the rule.

Ivan



> Best,
> 
> Nathan
> 


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