Re: RDF Issue #rdfms-qname-uri-mapping

Hi Jonathan,

At 16:51 21/01/2002 -0500, Jonathan Borden wrote:
[...]

>Since my proposed solution, Henry Thompson has explained to me how the
>issues with QNames and URIs are even deeper than I first assumed, namely
>that one cannot generally derive a proper URI which corresponds to the QName
>that XML Schema uses to identify a particular type. It seems to me that the
>RDFCore and XMLSchema WGs (at the very least) ought to develop a common,
>reasonably acceptable convention as to the mapping between QNames and URIs.
>Perhaps this is an issue that the TAG ought to consider (because it is a
>really basic architectural issue). I have cc:'d both Henry Thompson and Tim
>Bray. If either of these individuals agree that this issue ought to be
>closed, then I will find that acceptable and will withdraw my current
>objection.

You may be interested in this

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Jan/0188.html

which also suggests that refining the definitions of and relationships 
between resources, URI's, URI refs and namespaces is a task for the TAG.

Brian