>Re: Peter F Brown's post (Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:35:14)
>
>Peter writes:
>
>"
>The spec is clear, yesŠ. but an object is not the same thing as the
>address of the object (according to the RFC, I *am* my address): the
>object needs identity as much as the address of it does. That is where I
>feel this axiom of the W3C falls downŠ
>"
>
>Clearly there is a problem here. But we should be careful to
>distinguish confusedly designed frameworks from confused documentation
>of well-designed ones.
>
>While RDF specifications, for example, are relatively clear and sound,
>the RDF primer provides an abundance of examples such as:
>
>ex:index.html exterms:creation-date "August 16, 1999" .
>ex:index.html dc:language "en" .
>
>supposed to state that "August 16, 1999" is the creation date of a page
>and "en" is he language of a page, while both are literal strings and
>*not* identifiers for a date and a language, respectively. (01)
What?? Why should a string not be an identifier?
In fact, it seems to me that *all* identifiers
are strings. And the second example uses a
language tag which is taken from an Internet
standard for language tagging: what could be a
better example of an agreed identifier? Why is
this confused? (02)
> But from
>this apparently confused example one should not infer that RDF itself is
>confused (in this respect).
>
>(This is not to say that RDF is not confused.) (03)
One can make many valid criticisms of RDF, but
being confused isn't one of them. (04)
Pat (05)
>
>
>Wacek
>
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