- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:45:38 +0100
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 08:38 PM 10/22/02 +0200, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > the interpretation of literals in > > the current (old) namespace remains ambiguous, and interpretation in the > > new namespace is subject to the new stricter rules. This means that Mike > > Dean's data, and others, isn't overnight declared wrong, just > > ambiguous. > >I would like to hear from the horse's mouth! > >I note that changing the namespace URI is a big deal for tool builders. > >Off the top of my head, I would expect the Jena team to need at least a >couple >of months to work out and implement an appropriate strategy for this single >feature. Obviously if its the right call then we will do that - but ... Ouch! If true, that suggests to me that namespace identifiers (as language identifiers) fail in one their main goals, per [1] (which is a topic of debate for another place). #g -- [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Evolution.html ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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