- From: David Wood <david@3roundstones.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:36:13 -0400
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Cc: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On Oct 11, 2011, at 15:02, Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com> wrote: > On 10/11/2011 7:49 AM, Phillips, Addison wrote: >> XML is an interesting case because it makes the opposite decision consciously: two canonically-equivalent but unequal identifiers are not equal. XML provides recommended naming rules that avoid the various problems of normalization (Appendix J in XML 5th Edition) for precisely this reason. This is not an invalid solution, but the I18N WG is trying to highlight this issue one last time before all specifications go down this route. I do not think we're going to change XML, but this should not dissuade other document formats, even those based on XML, from normatively addressing normalization issues. > > > Addison, Martin, > > my attempt to summarize this discussion for the RDF people is as follows: > > 9 years ago, at the Cannes tech plenary, I18N-WG advised RDF Core WG (i.e. Martin advised me!) that early uniform normalization was the way to go, but that there was still debate about other approaches. > > As a result RDF Core WG deferred to the IRI draft for IRI normalization, and used SHOULD language around literal normalization. > > The situation now, is that there is still debate in the I18N community, and there is less consensus around early uniform normalization than before. > > Hence, reasonable options for RDF WG are > > A) > 1) drop the informative reference to the normalization section of charmod, but otherwise make no change > B) > 2) drop the "SHOULD use NFC" requirement on literals I'm good with this one, unless we decide to do something around our ISSUE-63: http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/63 Regards, Dave > C) > 3) update the informative reference to the normalization section of charmod, but it is unclear quite to what since the situation has become more confused since the 2004 publication > > RDF systems do compare literals fairly frequently, but not usually as 'identifiers' > > I guess I am saying that RDF Concepts did "normatively address normalization issues" but it seems that that is a moving target, so maybe it was an error to try. > > > Jeremy > >
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