- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:47:07 -0400
- To: "www-rdf-interest@w3.org" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Jon Hanna wrote: >>>Thomas B. Passin writes: >>>>The point is, you can't really determine even a namespace to try to >>>> dereference in the hopes of getting some useful information except >>>> by using heuristics that are not specified or sanctioned by the >>>>Rec. >>> >>> >>>Who said anything about dereferencing namespaces? >> >>Well, John Hanna (for one) said something exactly like that on >>6-24-2004, and IIRC I was responding to his post (or maybe subsequent >>discussions). > > > Nope, no interest in the namespace name at all - I'm interested in > <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> and hence I dereference > <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns> Well, in this case the uri happened to be the namespace usually used to create prefixes for RDF QNames, which is IIRC how I came to write my post. Sorry to have misrepresented your intent. I have seen a number of discussions in the past about the (more explicit) dereferencing of namespace URIs - like your examples but more intentionally about namespace uris, but I don't have any pointer at hand right now. Cheers, Tom P -- Thomas B. Passin Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web (Manning Books) http://www.manning.com/catalog/view.php?book=passin
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