RE: JSON-LD: Please keep @base

On Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:58 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:
> > If you look at the JSON-LD grammar, specifically the section Context
> Definitions:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/#context-definitions
> >
> > You'll see that such a definition is illegal. It has to be an
> absolute IRI. The playground on json-ld.org seems to accept it
> nevertheless and the algorithms actually don't verify it. I've CC'ed
> Dave Longley who implemented the JSON-LD processor used for the
> playground.
> >
> > That wasn't intended and we probably should throw an error instead as
> it is ambiguous relative to which base URL such a definition is
> resolved.
> 
> Turtle allows the use of a relative base, as does HTML (AFAIKR), if
> @base is seen in the context of an already established base IRI, this
> could be valid, IMO.

But neither Turtle nor HTML have external contexts. So are you really
proposing to allow relative URLs in contexts? 



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