- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:44:53 +0200
- To: "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: ext Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, www-archive@w3.org, ext Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
On Mar 12, 2004, at 16:50, ext Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > > Patrick Stickler wrote: > >> Technically, it's a trivial addition. In practice, though, it >> requires *every* RDF parser >> to be updated. And since the new specs just required all the parsers >> to be revamped, >> retested, etc. I don't think the parser folks would be very keen >> about *any* changes >> so soon after the new specs. > > > Realistically the time-to-deployment of any good ideas we have is > years not months ... > And this isn't a huge change really. > True. Though I think the other arguments against a syntactic approach and for a vocabulary based approach still strongly favor the vocabulary approach. And uptake, given compatiblity with legacy systems/tools, will still be aided by a solution that doesn't require re-tooling... so the number of years can still be reduced. Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Nokia, Finland patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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