- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:02:38 -0400 (EDT)
- To: dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk
- Cc: gk@ninebynine.org, www-rdf-comments@w3.org
From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [proposal to close] pfps-22,pfps-23: "reserved names in abstract syntax" Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:49:42 +0100 > On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 07:36:28 -0400 (EDT) > "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote: > > > Vocabulary 1: > > > > rdf:first rdf:rest > > > > Vocabulary 2: > > > > rdf:List rdf:nil > > > > What namespaces names can be used to identify these vocabularies? > > Identifying other sets of terms or comparing sets of terms, is not > something I'm dealing with or need to. Try OWL :) > > The RDF Vocabulary is a particular set of terms (infinite since it has > rdf:_n), neither of which is Vocabulary 1 or 2 above. So it isn't the > RDF namespace name. > > But I'm telling you stuff you already know. Please explain the problem. > > Dave The problem is that vocabularies exist independently of namespace names. Saying that a namespace name identifies a vocabulary, even the RDF and RDFS vocabularies, is incorrect. The RDF vocabulary is not identified by a namespace name or even by a namspace. peter
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