- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:08:07 +0000
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>
- Cc: "www-rdf-comments" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
At 12:34 PM 11/27/02 +0100, Danny Ayers wrote: >Out of curiosity, is there anything explicitly stated in the document suite >that would stop: > ><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/aaa"> > >referring to the document at the URL > >http://example.org/bbb > >and > ><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.org/bbb"> > >referring to the document at the URL > >http://example.org/aaa > >? We're working on that. There's nothing in the formal semantics AFAIK, but that would clearly be perverse in a practical situation. There are some words about defining authority in RDF-concepts that we're trying to get into the right form so that they recognize the real-life context that associates an HTTP URI with what you get on dereferencing. Part of the challenge here, I think, is to get the formalisms right so that they don't come over as artefacts in the real world. So even if the perversity you describe is possible, and behaves in a logically consistent fashion, that doesn't mean anyone would want to use it that way. What is important, I think, is that the things we do want to do also behave in a logically consistent fashion. #g ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org>
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