- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:33:20 +0100
- To: <kstar@cpan.org>
- Cc: "Stephen Cranefield" <SCranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> > TimBL even appears to believe (according to [1]) that > > HTTP URLs can only identify generic documents, and > > therefore all namespaces in HTTP space must end in a "#". > > What is [1]? You didn't appear to have a footnote in > your email. Oops; many apologies. [1] [[[ It is important, on the Semantic Web, to be clear about what is identified. An http: URI (without fragment identifier) necessarily identifies a generic document. This is because the HTTP server response about a URI can deleiver a rendition of (or location of, or apologies for) a document which is identified by the URI requested. A client which understands the http: protocol can immediately conclude that the fragementid-less URI is a generic document. This is true even if the publisher (owner of the DNS name) has decided not to run a server. Even if it just records the fact that the document is not available online, still a client knows it refers to a document. This means that identifiers for arbitrary RDF concepts should have fragment identifiers. This in term means that RDF namespaces should end with "#". ]]] - http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Fragment -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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