Re: Consts/CURIEs in PS (was Re: DTB status (on today's agenda) )

> Michael Kifer wrote:
> > Cool!
> > 
> > There is only one little thing. Right now the spec allows "aliases" for
> > symbol space names. Those aliases are not required to be IRIs (otherwise I
> > do not see a purpose for them). So, something like
> > 
> > "abc"^^foobar&>%$
> > 
> > is also possible (in principle). It would be wrong to write it as 
> > 
> > "abc"^^<foobar&>%$>
> > 
> > since foobar&>%$ is not an iri.
> > 
> > On the other hand, I do not see those aliases as terribly useful in any
> > form or shape. I included them because Jos wanted them. So, I would be
> > perfectly happy to throw them out.
> 
> I think there was a misunderstanding.  I was only advocating the 
> possibility of having aliases that are also IRIs.  (the reason for 
> allowing aliases is compatibility with other semantic Web languages)

There are also languages where aliases are not IRIs.
I would then propose to get rid of the aliases, since it is not clear why
they are needed in an exchange language.



	--michael  


> Best, Jos
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 	--michael
> > 
> > 
> >> Okay, I think I see a consensus here (more or less proposed by Jos and
> >> Michael at different times):
> >> (1) "foo"^^<bar>
> >>
> >> This is the normal, full syntax for constants.  For example:
> >>
> >>     "http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator"^^<http://www.w3.org/2007/rif#iri>
> >>
> >> (2)  foo:bar    
> >>
> >> is shorthand for
> >>
> >>     "expand(foo)bar"^^<http://www.w3.org/2007/rif#iri>
> >>
> >> except on the right-hand-side of a ^^.
> >>
> >> (3) "foo"^^bar:baz
> >>
> >> is shorthand for
> >>
> >>     "foo"^^<expand(bar)baz>
> >>
> >> This means that the CURIE syntax (a:b) is context sensitive; it's read
> >> differently on the right-hand-side of ^^.
> >>
> >> (4) <foo>
> >>
> >> This is not allowed.  The pointy-brackets are only allowed as part of
> >> the ^^ construct. Maybe someday we can figure out a way to allow it, but
> >> right now it has problems.
> >>
> >> (5) "foo"^^bar
> >>
> >> is allowed for aliasing (I don't quite follow this), but doesn't
> >> interact with the above.
> >>
> >> ================================================================
> >>
> >> If I'm understanding everyone correctly, we can all live with that.
> >> Yes?
> >>
> >>      -- Sandro
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Jos de Bruijn            debruijn@inf.unibz.it
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