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Re: Dave Beckett's comment concerning base-uri

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:01:41 +0100
Message-ID: <4640D725.5090706@hpl.hp.com>
To: Fabien Gandon <Fabien.Gandon@sophia.inria.fr>
CC: ogbujic@ccf.org, GRDDL Working Group <public-grddl-wg@w3.org>, Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>



Fabien Gandon wrote:

> As for the url parameter I am inclined to keep it because in a number of 
> cases the produced RDF/XML is not directly used by the GRDDL agent that 
> knows the base url but is saved in a file and processed later. In these 
> cases, having a standalone RDF/XML output that includes the base is very 
> convenient since no post processing is required at all.

Yes that is a use-case, but maybe it should be addressed in a different 
way ... e.g. read the GRDDL result as an RDF graph, and then reserialize 
it, using absolute URIs.

It isn't a use-case in our use cases document, which is perhaps why we 
haven't met it the way you envisage.

Jeremy

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