- From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:23:48 -0500
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "Patrick Stickler" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, "TAG" <www-tag@w3.org>, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>
Tim Berners-Lee wrote: [snip stuff I agree] > > If you say that a namespace file should *only* contain pointers, > then you may impede a perfectly goo application which has > a bunch of useful stuff in a single language > (e.g. RDF with a style sheet) and make such applications work at > half speed because you force an extra indirection. > Neither "half speed", nor client bloat, is necessary. a way to effectively eliminate any indirection overhead is to implement RDDL HTTP extensions, your RDF client only has to add: Man: "http://www.rddl.org/httpext"; ns=11 11-Nature: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# and your software should be happy as a clam ... assuming the namespace server implements RDDL indirection as you know, caching can make this blindingly efficient Jonathan
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