Re: IRIs vs. URIs in SPARQL spec

Thanks Dave... so if 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/#section-Graph-URIref says 
that "RDF URI references are compatible withInternational Resource 
Identifiers <http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-xml-names11-20031105/#IRIs>as 
defined by [XML Namespaces 1.1 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/#ref-xml-names11>]", does 
this mean that URI References do allow non-US-ASCII characters, so that 
http://www.example.org/Montréal is a valid URI Reference but not a valid 
URI? And that if "isURI is an alternate spelling for the isIRI 
operator", as the SPARQL spec says, then the latter refers to URI 
references and not to URIs?

thanks,

Bob

On 3/7/2011 3:34 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 13:45 -0500, Bob DuCharme wrote:
>> The SPARQL specs says in two places that "IRIs are a subset of RDF URI
>> References that omits spaces." I have trouble seeing it as a subset for
>> two reasons:
>>
>> 1. The  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt document that it references
>> says that it "defines a new protocol element called Internationalized
>> Resource Identifier (IRI) by extending the syntax of URIs to a much
>> wider repertoire of characters."
> Note that those statements in the SPARQL spec are not about URIs but
> about "RDF URI References" [1], these are not the same thing. RDF URI
> References were an attempt by the RDF Core WG to be compatible with IRIs
> before the IRI spec was finalized - an attempt which was very successful
> apart from the the handling of spaces.
>
> Dave
>
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/#section-Graph-URIref
>
>