Relative IRI Resolution

Hi,

I have just wrapped my head around a very subtle detail of the spec 
regarding IRI resolution.
Say I'd like to have a node like this:

{
   "@context": {
     "label": "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label"
   },
   "@id": "4711",
   "label": "Just a simple document"
}

Which has been retrieved from this URI:

http://api.example.com/docs/4711

Following the statements and definitions in sections "6.1 Base IRI" and 
"5.2 IRIs"
one could think that the resulting IRI is:

http://api.example.com/docs/47114711

Most people familiar with URL concepts know or instinctively feel that 
this is incorrect
but from what I can see it is not defined in the spec.
I think the relevant reference is 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.2.
This is even more important as 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.1 is referenced
for the base URI resolution.

So I think it would make sense to put a reference to 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.2
in section 5.2 of the spec.

Greets, Thomas

Received on Wednesday, 13 November 2013 10:52:04 UTC