Re: Maybe a new pandora's box? '/' in a term (not CURIE!)

Unless somebody vehemently opposes this, I would like to record it as an issue. May I?

Ivan

On Nov 16, 2011, at 14:47 , Shane McCarron wrote:

> In my opinion, TERM can be extended to permit anything we want.  TERMs are tokens that are matched in a very specific way.  But you are correct that, today, a TERM cannot contain a slash (nor a question mark, nor a hash).
> 
> On 11/16/2011 6:58 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> As I said, I made a mistake, I refer to the term and not the CURIE...
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 16, 2011, at 13:42 , Toby Inkster wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:33:54 +0100
>>> Ivan Herman<ivan@w3.org>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> <div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="A/B">  ...</div>
>>> That should work. There's an example along those lines in section 7.4
>>> of RDFa Core:
>>> 
>>> 	<div prefix="db: http://dbpedia.org/">
>>> 	<div about="db:resource/Albert_Einstein">
>>> 	...
>>> 	</div>
>>> 	</div>
>>> 
>> This is an example for a CURIE. What I am looking for is a term usage, ie, together with @vocab
>> 
>> Ivan
>> 
>> 
>>> The suffix part of a CURIE is an irelative-ref as defined by IRI. Not
>>> only can it contain a slash, it can contain a hash, a question mark,
>>> and pretty much anything else you like except unescaped whitespace.
>>> 
>>> 	<div prefix="http: http:">
>>> 	<div about="http://tobyinkster.co.uk/#i">
>>> 	...
>>> 	</div>
>>> 	</div>
>>> 
>>> In that example, the CURIE is perfectly legal. The @prefix attribute
>>> that defines it may or may not be legal - not quite sure. The part
>>> after the whitespace is supposed to be an xs:anyURI, and I'm not 100%
>>> sure whether "http:" is sufficient to satisfy that requirement, but it
>>> probably is, because xs:anyURI is defined very broadly.
>>> 
>>> We may actually want to drop the requirement for the part after the
>>> whitespace in @prefix to be an xs:anyURI. (The only important thing
>>> should be that when it's combined with a suffix, it forms a valid IRI.)
>>> We should perhaps allow any string that does not contain whitespace
>>> there.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Toby A Inkster
>>> <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>
>>> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
>>> 
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