- From: Damian Steer <pldms@me.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:23:14 +0000
- To: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Cc: Semantic Web IG <semantic-web@w3.org>, team-rdf-chairs@w3.org
On 28 Nov 2013, at 15:20, Damian Steer <pldms@me.com> wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2013, at 14:27, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> An idea has been floated and I'd like to assess the community's reaction. The rdf and rdfs namespaces are hard to remember (I always copy and paste, I guess you do too), but how do you react to the idea of deprecating those namespaces in favour of the much easier to remember http://www.w3.org/ns/rdf|s ? > > -1 > > The issue is that they're hard to remember for authors, mostly, so we'd be better off saying: > > * rdf and rdfs prefixes are always bound to (whatever they are :-) > * rdf and rdfs prefixes may not be bound to anything else > * parsers should issue a warning if a document attempts to override them > > Which is backward compatible, Tsk, that's not right. But it's not obnoxiously incompatible, which I shall count a virtue. Damian
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