Re: PROV-ISSUE-665: PROV Identifier conventions clarification [XML Serialization]

Added Identifier Conventions section to editors draft.

changeset: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/rev/f99a7ea128c1

--Stephan

On Apr 16, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

> PROV-ISSUE-665: PROV Identifier conventions clarification [XML Serialization]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/665
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> Raised by: Stephan Zednik
> On product: XML Serialization
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>> From Luc's feedback on PROV-XML WG Note:
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> As part of the design section, we should talk about the identifier
> conventions, especially, that they go beyond what XML does usually.
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>  1. All PROV identifiers are expressed as QNames in prov-xml.
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>  2. PROV mandates that QNames should be mappable to a uri by concatenating
>     namespace uri to local name.
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>  3. Note the restrictive nature of QNames, and some PROV-N identifiers, 
>     such as ex:001 are not valid QNames.  Hence, from an inter-operability
>     viewpoint across representations, implementers should aim to express identifiers
>     as valid QNames rather than more permissive QualifiedNames in PROV-N.
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Received on Thursday, 18 April 2013 06:40:53 UTC