Re: [proposal to close] pfps-22,pfps-23: "reserved names in abstract syntax"

>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.

OK

>Saying that a namespace name identifies a vocabulary, even the RDF and RDFS
>vocabularies, is incorrect.

Why? And why does this follow from the previous sentence? Not ALL 
vocabularies can be so identified, but that is not what is being said 
here.  I see nothing wrong with saying that the namespace name 'rdf' 
identifies the rdfV vocabulary, for example.

>  The RDF vocabulary is not identified by a
>namespace name or even by a namspace.

It does not seem to me that this assertion is a matter of absolute or 
objective fact one way or the other, but that is it not an 
unreasonable claim or one likely to be misunderstood.

Pat
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