Re: AW: Email Address as FOAF term

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:49:51PM +0100, john.nj.davies@bt.com wrote:
> 
> There is also the mbox_sha1sum property which uses a hash of your email
> address to uniquely identify you if you do not wish to disclose your
> email address.
> 
>   <foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
>      3edg453144de22607a169e585c487967d035cd27
>   </foaf:mbox_sha1sum> 

As with all literals, you should keep in mind that adding newlines like 
this significantly changes the value of the literal, which is a bad thing
with terms like this where the sha1sum is used as a unique identifier:

<mbox_sha1sum>2388d8d8d</mbox_sha1sum>

is different, and will not smush with,

<mbox_sha1sum>
2388d8d8d
</mbox_sha1sum>

Common practice is to include only the 40 character hash, and not any
whitespace or newlines.