RE: Graphs vs. Authorities vs. Warrants vs. Authentication vs. Certification etc. from Jeremy Carroll on 2004-03-19 (www-archive@w3.org from March 2004)

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:12:37 +0100
To: "Patrick Stickler" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Cc: "ext Chris Bizer" <chris@bizer.de>, <www-archive@w3.org>, "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ihmc.us>
Message-ID: <BHEGLCKMOHGLGNOKPGHDAENPCCAA.jjc@hpl.hp.com>

> The benefit of using a signature-special datatype over just
> base64EncodedBinary
> is that the datatype specification can say how the actual signature is
> produced
> and used.

No - a datatype is defined as a lexical space, a value space and a mapping
.. I don't think there is room in such a definition for throwing in the
kicthen sink. That's why we strongly suggest against using xsd:QName, or
xsd:ID which expect an XML context in which to be used.

Jeremy

> Does that help to convince you in the least?

Guess :)

Received on Friday, 19 March 2004 08:13:23 UTC