- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:17:29 -0500
- To: "David Booth" <dbooth@w3.org>
- cc: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>, www-archive@w3.org
> Graham Klyne wrote in > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Jan/0298.html : > >My point of divergence with [Sandro's] proposal is the suggestion it > >should be part of the RDF core, because I don't see the necessity for it > >to be there. > > For an explanation of why it needs to be in the language, see > http://www.w3.org/2002/11/dbooth-names/dbooth-names_clean.htm#EnablingViewSou > rce > > Of course, what you consider to be "the language" is a matter of > choice. But if it isn't in RDF Core, then it *must* be in something else > that is effectively acting as "the language" that different writers are using [ reads David's "Enabling the View Source Effect" ... ] Yes, exactly. Without that, we're left with only the tedious and error prone rdfs:isDefinedBy and owl:imports. If that's all you have, there's absolutely no reason to use http URIs. This is why I proposed tag URIs, to make this clear. In fact, tag URIs suck -- because you can't click on them. -- sandro
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