- From: Efthymiou, Nick <Nick.Efthymiou@schwab.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:06:11 -0700
- To: "'www-rdf-comments@w3.org'" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: "'pfps@research.bell-labs.com'" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
In my opinion, this topic is related to the 3rd Note in http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20030123/#section-Namespace Following the principles laid out by TBL in http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html and http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html (Cool URIs don't change), the w3c SHOULD provide a new URI to replace http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# , possibly a mnemonically similar one, say http://www.w3.org/2003/22-rdf-syntax-ns# , and the "namespace document" at the replacement URI should contain the updates noted under the 2nd Note of http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20030123/#section-Namespace , namely the addition of List, first, rest, nil, nodeID, XMLLiteral and datatype. This will (1) allow users and tool evaluators to discern whether a RDF tool implements the semantics of 1999 RDF or whether it implements the semantics of RDF / RDFS as extended to support OWL and (2) allow tool implementors to use a conforming source document (namely the namespace document posted by the w3c) to build conforming tools. Just my two cents. - Nick - > WARNING: All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received or > otherwise recorded by the Charles Schwab corporate e-mail system and is > subject to archival, monitoring or review by, and/or disclosure to someone > other than the recipient. > >
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