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Re: best way to write triples (was RE: Agenda for RDFCore WG Telecon 2002-04-19)

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Date: 19 Apr 2002 08:56:18 -0500
To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>, RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <1019224579.5164.316.camel@dirk> 
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 06:36, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
[...]
> For example, the n-triple:
> 
> <http://example.org/#foo> <http://www.w3.org/-the-rdf-url#type>
> <http:the-rdfs-url#Property> .
> 
> is informally written as:
> 
> <eg:foo> <rdf:type> <rdfs:Property> .

no, that's ambiguous as to whether eg:foo is a qname or a URIref.
If you want to use qnames, drop the <>s:

	eg:foo rdf:type rdfs:Property.


cf http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html#Sharing

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