Re: namespace prefix definitions in presentation syntax

The RIF specification says that curies are NOT to be used in XML - only
absolute URIs. In the presentation syntax they are used as an informal
shorthand.


	--michael  

> Dear all,
> 
> I just tried to write down some RIF presentation syntax... (I know I 
> shouldn't do this) ... and realized that we don't have any way to define 
> namespace prefixes there although we use curies allover...

> So I thought we shall reuse one of the established syntaxes here instead 
> of reinventing the wheel.
> 
> 3 alternatives come to my mind:
> 
> TURTLE:
> 
> @prefix prefix: <IRI>.
> 
> SPARQL:
> 
> PREFIX prefix: <IRI>
> 
> XQuery:
> 
> declare namespace prefix="IRI"
> 
> for the moment, I suggest to us the latter, because
> we never use angle bracketted IRI's  in the document.
> 
> BTW: We might want to switch to angle brackets in the end, because
> with curies alone, we cannot express all URIs (that is acxtually a 
> severe problem in RDF/XML, btw, where properties can only be CURIEs)
> 
>   e.g. assume I have a datatype "http://mydatatype.com/"
> 
> I cannot write:
> 
>    "12345"^^http://mydatatype.com/
> 
> because we have only CURIEs in the datatype position (didn't see other 
> examples so far) and the pain thing is that http://mydatatype.com/ 
> cannot really be synbtactically be split into a QName.
> 
> obviously, we don't want to end up in
> 
>    "12345"^^"ttp://mydatatype.com/"^^rif:iri
> 
> which BTW could then be written as:
> 
>    "12345"^^"htttp://mydatatype.com/"^^"http://theIRIforRifIRI"^^rif:iri
> 
> which actually could be written as:
>  
> "12345"^^"ttp://mydatatype.com/"^^"http://theIRIforRifIRI"^^"http://theIRIforRifIRI"^^rif:iri
> 
> ...
> 
> right?
> 
> Axel
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> -- 
> Dr. Axel Polleres
> email: axel@polleres.net  url: http://www.polleres.net/
> 
> rdfs:Resource owl:differentFrom xsd:anyURI .
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Received on Friday, 29 February 2008 19:05:22 UTC