Re: Helping out with canonicalization of URIs

Clive D.W. Feather scripsit:

> HTTP doesn't distinguish them that I can see. Can you explain the RDF bit
> in words of one syllable?

RDF maps QNames like foo:bar to URI references by appending "bar" to the
namespace name currently bound to the prefix foo.  It's useful for
such namespace names to end in # or /, usually #, so that the local name
is clearly separated from the namespace name.

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