rdf:nodeID and external entities?

• From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
• Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:20:46 -0800
• To: <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4F4182C71C1FDD4BA0937A7EB7B8B4C1072904D1@red-msg-08.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#section-Syntax-blank-nodes

Spec does not seem to mention the impact that expansion of external
entities would have on rdf:nodeID.  For example, if I have:

File1.xml
<rdf:Description rdf:nodeID="1">
&extern;
</rdf:Description>

File2.xml
<rdf:Description rdf:nodeID="1">
....
</rdf:Description>

I would expect that the two would _not_ resolve to the same blank node,
even if &extern; was pointing to File2.xml.  In other words, I expected
the spec to say something like:

"values for rdf:nodeID are evaluated with respect to the baseURI
property of their containing element"
 

Received on Wednesday, 11 December 2002 04:21:18 UTC