- From: Jos de Bruijn <debruijn@inf.unibz.it>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 10:12:54 +0200
- To: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- CC: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>, "Public-Rif-Wg (E-mail)" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
> 1. Standalone occurrence:
> foo:bar ---> "expand(foo)bar"^^"http://www.w3.org/2007/rif#iri"
>
> 2. A ^^-occurrence:
> "abc"^^foo:bar ----> "abc"^^"expand(foo)bar"
>
> If you do not like "..." for the after the ^^-part, use '...' or even <...>.
> But, in the latter case, <...> CANNOT be used as a macro. That is,
>
> <abc> --X--> "abc"^^rif:iri.
>
> is a no-no.
>
> My proposal allows some simple form of context sensitivity, but not the
> above <...> macro atrocity (if <...> is also used after the ^^).
> I do not see why we need such a macro in the first place, if in most cases
> we will be using foo:bar.
Agreed. We should not have more than 1 shortcut mechanism for IRIs.
> PS. I vaguely remember that Jos may have proposed something similar in the
> past.
Yes, I proposed exactly this.
Best, Jos
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