Re: fragment identifiers from Jonathan Borden on 2002-07-24 (www-tag@w3.org from July 2002)

From: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:44:59 -0400
To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <004401c232ff$286879a0$0201a8c0@ne.mediaone.net>

Joshua Allen wrote:

[[

> why this must be the case -- e.g. what breaks if we allow something
like
> http://example.org/term/Car to refer to the concept "Car"? RDF would
be
> happy as a clam with this.

There are systems built on RDF which are NOT "happy as a clam" with
this.  EARL is one example.

RDF itself is neutral; at best you could say that RDF is ambivalent.
The systems which use RDF will NOT be ambivalent about identity, though.

]]

How does EARL break? If EARL is broken, I suspect _something else_ broke it.
Educate us.

Jonathan

Received on Wednesday, 24 July 2002 07:00:11 UTC