- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:23:17 +0100
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- CC: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Pat Hayes wrote: > Hey, the following thought occurred to me. Is it legal to use a uriref > in an RDF triple, where the uriref is the URL of the document in which > the triple appears? In other words, can a piece of RDF refer to itself? > If so, what could it possibly mean? Does DAML do this? Hmmm, yes it does. In: http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil-ex.daml I find: <daml:Ontology rdf:about=""> <daml:versionInfo>$Id: daml+oil-ex.daml,v 1.9 2001/05/03 16:38:38 mdean Exp $</daml:versionInfo> <rdfs:comment> An example ontology, with data types taken from XML Schema </rdfs:comment> <daml:imports rdf:resource="http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil"/> </daml:Ontology> The 'rdf:about=""' refers to current document. Is that what you meant Pat? Brian > > In case anyone is wondering, the issue arises when one starts playing > with Jos deRoo's entailment examples, which have triples which talk > about RDF documents. > > Pat Hayes
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