Re: LANG: Moving issues 5.6 and 5.14 forward

• From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
• Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:42:54 -0400 (EDT)
• To: jjc@hpl.hp.com
• Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <20020924.154254.111295108.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: LANG: Moving issues 5.6 and 5.14 forward
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:28:02 +0200

> 
> > The problem is that the RDF syntax requires a
> > root element of <RDF:rdf>
> 
> Jeff's quote is write, and there has been no pressure to change it.
> Jeff's analysis of the freedom of where we put RDF concurs with my 
> understanding.
> 
> i.e. we could define owl:Ontology as a root level element that always had the 
> stuff we want and then the RDF content without any rdf:RDF tag. It wouldn't 
> really be playing the game, but it wouldn't exactly be cheating either.

Au contraire, it would be playing the RDF game, as it has been given to
us.  

> 
> 
> Jeremy


peter

Received on Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:43:06 UTC