RE: Summary of the QName to URI Mapping Problem

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext pat hayes [mailto:phayes@ai.uwf.edu]
> Sent: 29 August, 2001 03:11
> To: Stickler Patrick (NRC/Tampere)
> Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Summary of the QName to URI Mapping Problem
> 
> 
> >IMO, XML Namespaces "outranks" RDF and therefore RDF must
> >toe-the-line insofar as what the XML Namespace defines; and
> >if it doesn't, then the XML community at large is not going
> >to like RDF too much.
> 
> Ah, thanks for putting the issue squarely where it belongs. It's 
> evidently a political matter, not a technical or philosophical one. 
> At this point I will bow out and let the staghorns clash in the 
> forest.

Per your own arguments regarding the need for standardized
assumptions for SW behavior, this issue (at least for me) has
always been a very practical and technical one.

Patrick

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Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2001 01:38:59 UTC