On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:36:41PM +0100, Pete Johnston wrote:
> > If we were to take this stance, then the Namespace
> > Policy would need to be carefully revised to separate
> > out the notion of vocabulary-as-term-set both from
> > the notion of schema-as-set-of-statements and from
> > namespace-as-string-for-syntactic-uses (and DCMI Namespaces
> > would be the latter, the "syntactic use" being the
> > once-for-all-time creation of a URI reference).
>
> But this still doesn't change the fact that, in addition to this use as
> "URIref-roots" for the Usage Board, the URIrefs
> http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ (etc) are _also_ already used (in XML)
> as XML Namespace Names, where they provide part of the QNames of XML
> elements.
>
> So I'm still kinda worried about that pig farm....
I don't see the contradiction. Both uses are in the
"namespace-as-string-for-syntactic-uses" category.
So we would use something else for vocabulary-as-term-set.
Tom
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