- From: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:52:16 -0700
- To: Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>
- CC: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, bnowack@appmosphere.com, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > > I might be wrong, but I thought Garrett agreed prefixes and suffixes > aren't ordered? I thought he just wanted to remove the restriction on > cardinality? That is correct. I can't think of a scenario in which "Dr." is subordinate to "Mr." or vice-versa. Or "Jr." and "III", for that matter. With such limited ranges, most systems will be able to put them in a nice order, depending on the circumstances. > Yes, but I'm still unclear how additional names as ordered is helpful, > unless you follow the problematic nco convention of treating only the > first given name as the proper given name and any others as ordered > additional names. That's what I proposed. Names are intrinsically ordered. I was happy getting at least some order in the spec, but now it seems that even one little ordered something is too much for RDF. Garret
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