- From: patrick hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:52:07 -0500
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>, Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> >>>patrick hayes said: > ><snip amount="lots"/> >> (6) Does this require any changes to syntax/ test cases/ Ntriples/ >> datatyping/ whatever? >> A: No. > >Until you had used the word 'namespace' in the bit I've cut from >above, I would say no. When namespace appears in the MT, I'm >worried. > >I just went and checked in the MT WD, and you do use it a few more >times than I expected. Hmm! > >Patrick Stickler has said elsewhere that "namespaces are punctuation" >which is a bit strong, but for RDF/XML that is mostly correct. RDF >does not have namespaces in the model (theory). I didn't say "XML namespace", I just said "namespace" A namespace means a set of names. A namespace in RDF is just a set of urirefs. Perhaps this needs to be spelled out more carefully. If 'namespace' is misleading, call it a 'vocabulary' or something. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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