- From: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:40:34 +0000
- To: public-ldp-wg@w3.org
On 13/03/13 07:10, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
> Henry,
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net
> <mailto:henry.story@bblfish.net>> wrote:
>
> The abstract syntax specificiation allows for relative URLs:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#rdf-documents
>
>
> This section is about serialization; it explicitly says "concrete syntaxes".
> On the other hand, the definition of IRI for the graph model
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#dfn-iri
>
> explicitly says "IRIs in the RDF abstract syntax MUST be absolute".
Yes.
A syntax may allow a relative URI but that's in a document and a
document has a base URI. The relative URI is relative to some base URI.
Relative URI have a role in syntax
RFC 3986 makes it clear:
[[
5.1. Establishing a Base URI
The term "relative" implies that a "base URI" exists against which
the relative reference is applied. Aside from fragment-only
references (Section 4.4), relative references are only usable when a
base URI is known.
]]
Andy
Received on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 09:41:11 UTC