- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:18:03 -0400
- To: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hp.com>
- Cc: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, www-tag@w3.org, Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 07:52 US/Eastern, Williams, Stuart wrote: > Indeed... "RDF/XML Syntax Specification Revised" [1] gives number of > examples that contain what I think Tim would regard as 'illegal' > references. > > Figure 1 contains the following URI References as property names: > > http://www.example.org/terms/editor > http://www.example.org/terms/homePage > http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title > http://www.example.org/terms/fullName alas. > Stuart > -- > [1] > http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20030123/#section- > Syntax-nod > e-property-elements > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Williams, Stuart [mailto:skw@hp.com] >> Sent: 17 July 2003 12:32 >> To: 'Tim Berners-Lee'; pat hayes >> Cc: www-tag@w3.org; Pat Hayes >> Subject: RE: resources and URIs >> >> >> >> Tim (or Pat), >> >>> No, that would be illegal by my way of thinking. >>> http://chandra.harvard.edu/NGC/ngc1068 is an information resource. >>> You would expect >>> >>> >>> <rdf:Description >>> rdf:about="http://chandra.harvard.edu/NGC#ngc1068" >>> rdf:type="http://chandra.harvard.edu/AOtype/Activegalaxy7" >>> </rdf:Description> >>> >>> or, in the http://chandra.harvard.edu/NGC information ressource,, >>> >>> <rdf:Description >>> rdf:about="#ngc1068" >>> rdf:type="http://chandra.harvard.edu/AOtype/Activegalaxy7" >>> </rdf:Description> >>> >>> where you can see that local identifiers can be used to refer >>> to abstract things, because that is what the RDF language >> spec says. >> >> Can you provide a reference to what the RDF language spec >> actually says on this topic, I'd like to read it for myself. >> >> I was under there impression that RDF gave URI References >> (2396 terminology) an entirely opaque treatment. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stuart >> -- >>
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