- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:27:09 -0000
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
[part of my "pointing out the obvious" series...] Dan Brickley wrote:- > urn:uuid:3242340623324314890324 and suchlike are fine > names for RDF predicates (albeit non-representable in RDF > 1.0 XML syntax). The problem is that some applications may understand a certain URN; granted most will not. This is true for any non-dereferencable URI. Even when you have something that you can dereference, there is no guarantee that the resource will be in a grokable format (e.g. N3 to an XML processor is not going to be of any use to it). But then, why use URIs for predicates anyway? All properties have to be defined somewhere, otherwise they are meaningless. Anything in the RDF M&S is going to be pre-assumed, but anything else is just proprietary. Thus, it dosen't matter what form the alias takes on as long as when you have reconstructed the URI it points to whatever it is supposed to point at. Incidentally, there are systems that parse URL (namespaces) by dereferencing them; they tend to work, but I have not yet seen one that uses multi-formats... maybe RDDL will help to solve that problem (point it to XML RDF, point it to N3...)? -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://infomesh.net/2001/01/n3terms/#> . [ :name "Sean B. Palmer" ] :homepage <http://infomesh.net/sbp/> .
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