- From: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:03:53 -0700
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>, public-rdf-comments Comments <public-rdf-comments@w3.org>, Giovanni Tummarello <giovanni.tummarello@deri.org>, Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
On 8/8/2012 4:01 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > 1. RDF 2004 is the only standard on the planet that allows spaces in > URIs/IRIs I believe that the plural in spaces is crucial in making that sentence true ... The XML Schema Datatypes version 1.0 anyURI I believe allows spaces [1], but it's white space handling rules will replace multiple spaces with a single space. So I believe <http://www.example.org/Two Spaces> conforms with RDF 2004 but not XML Schema 1.0 and <http://www.example.org/One Space> conforms with both .... Both specifications had history against them - the IRI spec was much anticipated and pretty late - and people had to get on with the job Hmmm, java.net.URI is from the same era, and has similar issues I think. Checking out the XML Schema ref [1], I see there is a second spec - which really does seem to have very similar rules to RDF 2004, XLink [2]. I think one Jeremy [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#anyURI [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xlink-20010627/#link-locators
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