- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:19:30 +0100
- To: patrick hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- cc: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>>>patrick hayes said: > > >>>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. I'm just sensitive to this since lots of people see namespace==XML namespace especially when in web specs that use XML. The current MT does use namespace in both senses, if I read it correctly. Re: "A namespace in RDF is just a set of urirefs." Have we defined this. Would be nice maybe and if so, should we have a way to relate (i.e. a property) the namespace to the set of urirefs ? Relates to the isDefinedBy discussion ? Dave
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