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Fwd: Put <> around URIs. Re: draft CURIE draft feedback

From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:31:39 -0400
Message-Id: <BDE090D1-2676-4BF6-83B3-54B69E9B9E93@w3.org>
To: W3C RDFa task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>

This is a comment I made earlier in a TAG context but thought I would  
repeat here.
It seems silly to distinguish curies from URIs in a way which makes  
the short form longer.
Why not make the short curie the default, and allow a longer syntax  
for the case in which someone wants to put a full URI?

Thus not

	<a zref="[book:ch1]">
	<a zref="http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1">

but

	<a zref="book:ch1">
	<a zref="<http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1>">
or
	<a zref="[http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1]">

This not only minimizes the number of characters in abbreviated case  
rather than the longhand case, it also uses a convention common  
elsewhere in N3 and SPARQL.  Clearly a superior solution, better for  
the documents and better for learning.

Tim
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