RE: atom:category excludes atom:* children?

["Brian Smith" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Antone Roundy wrote:
> If @term alone were intended to uniquely identify a category,
> why have @scheme at all? And why didn't we create or
> reference a category scheme for everyone to share?
>
> Therefore, unless for some reason you want to omit @scheme, I 
> see no need to use IRIs for @term.

I agree that @scheme seems pretty useless as it is defined in the specification. Luckily, if you avoid using @scheme, and you use IRIs for @term, you can avoid worrying about it.

Regards,
Brian