- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 01:17:50 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
pat hayes wrote, > Nothing outside of RDF can specify what meaning RDF assigns to a > string of characters containing a hash mark. True enough. But equally, nothing inside of RDF can specify what meanings other systems, formal or informal, might assign to the very same string of characters. In the absence of additional contextual information (eg. as provided in this case by the media type Aaron's proposing) that means that the string of characters is ambiguous: could denote a dog or an element or whatever. And some folks round here just don't like ambiguity. That being so, I don't think they really have very much option but to take this route ... I just wish they'd do it consistently across the board and start thinking about specifing a richer set of disambiguating mechanisms. Cheers, Miles
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