- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 04:48:35 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
* Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> [2005-02-13 12:11-0800] > > On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > >>You are confusing the bag with the stuff in the bag > >>(no negative connotation intended). > > > >Your entire premise seems to be based on an article of faith that > >collections cannot change. While this position is logically > >self-consistent, I find nothing inconsistent in the alternate position > >that collections can change. Furthermore, I think allowing mutable > >collections of names is more practically useful for the development of > >the Web and other XML-based technologies. > > +1 -Tim +1 I'd say the majority of RDF/XML namespaces have evolved in-place, ie. added or tweaked things on the basis of deployment experience. It's a method that comes with some costs, but shipping out a whole new namespace URI is also expensive. Dan
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