Re: a remark on the webid spec

On 12 Dec 2011, at 18:32, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:

> On 12/12/2011 05:45 PM, Henry Story wrote:
>> 
>> On 12 Dec 2011, at 15:24, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> having a look at the WebID spec, I spotted a few mistakes in the RDF/XML
>>> example:
>>> 
>>> * the rdfs namespace is not declared
>>> * the closing tag for rdfs:label misses the leading '/'
>>> * the datatypes xsd:hexBinary and xsd:integer should be expanded URIs,
>>> not CURIEs
>> 
>> very well spotted, Pierre. Thanks a lot. We have updated the spec here
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>>  https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/rev/add4f836470d
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>> WE fixed this in today's meeting
>> 
>>   http://www.w3.org/2011/12/12-webid-minutes.html
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>> and we should have a new spec with all the latest changes out today.
>> 
>> Does one really have to use full URLs for datatypes? That's really a bit lame...
> 
> well, unless I missed something the RDF/XML recommendation, I'm pretty
> sure you have to...
> 
> And I agree, it is a bit lame...

That would be one point in favour of using Turtle as the other MUST format, (and drop rdf/xml)
Though we would need quite a few other serious reasons to do something like that.

Henry

> 
>  pa
> 
>> 
>> Henry
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>>> 
>>> best
>>> 
>>> pa
>>> 
>> 
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