Re: URIs in @rel and @property...

Pfew...:-)

Ivan

P.S. Mark-the-elephant-hunter:-)

Mark Birbeck wrote:
> Hi Ivan/Niklas,
> 
> 2009/11/16 Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>:
>> Hi Niklas,
>>
>> Niklas Lindström wrote:
>>>> So is there an elephant?:-)
>>> I haven't followed this discussion to closely, so I want to check if
>>> this the following is considered:
>>>
>>> This usage will "muddle the waters" in cases when the relative URI:s
>>> contain colon, and there is a prefix with the same name as the leading
>>> part before that, right? Concrete (but contrieved) example:
>>>
>>> Given:
>>>     - base URI: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/>
>>>     - prefix Talk: <http://example.org/schema/talk#>
>>>
>>> When:
>>>     @resource="Talk:Linked_Data"
>>>
>>> Then:
>>>     - URI becomes < http://example.org/schema/talk#Linked_Data>,
>>> instead of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linked_Data>, which is
>>> might be expected?
>>>
>> Hm. You may found the elephant:-)
>>
>> Yes, in this case one would indeed get the example.org URI.
>>
>> The question is: is this use case so strong as to nullify the advantages
>> of using CURIE-s in @about? Indeed, wikipedia uses such URI-s with ':'
>> quite a lot but the user can of course put full URI-s into the value of
>> @about...
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Whoah...slow down. :)
> 
> "Talk:Linked_Data" is not a relative path!
> 
> Forget prefixes, CURIEs, whatever...even if those things did not
> exist, how would a URI processor know whether "Talk:" is a scheme or
> just part of a relative path?
> 
> RFC 3986 [1] addresses this in the following way:
> 
>   A path segment that contains a colon character (e.g., "this:that")
> cannot be used as the
>   first segment of a relative-path reference, as it would be mistaken
> for a scheme name.
>   Such a segment must be preceded by a dot-segment (e.g.,
> "./this:that") to make a
>   relative-path reference.
> 
> So, if people are using relative paths that contain colons, in the
> wild, then there's a problem, and that problem is completely
> independent of RDFa.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> [1] <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt>
> 
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