[Fwd: SPARQL: IRIs vs RDF URI References]

Checking the rq23, I found one last mention of RDF URI Reference in section 
2.2 as per this comment.

I have simply removed the discussion of RDF URI reference from v1.496

"""
Note that all IRIs are absolute; they may or may not include a fragment 
identifier [3987, sec 3.1]. Also note that IRIs include URIs [RFC3986] and URLs.
"""

Dan, please confirm that this changes is responsive to the comment and 
consistent with WG proceedings.

	Andy


Background:

The difference is that RDF URI References permit space in anticipation of the 
direction that IRIs would go but in the end RFC 3987 does not allow a literal 
space in an IRI.

RFC 3987 says:
    iunreserved    = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~" / ucschar
    ucschar        = %xA0-D7FF / %xF900-FDCF / %xFDF0-FFEF ...

and in addition:

"""
    Systems accepting IRIs MAY also deal with the printable characters in
    US-ASCII that are not allowed in URIs, namely "<", ">", '"', space,
    "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", and "`", in step 2 above.  If these
    characters are found but are not converted, then the conversion
    SHOULD fail.
"""
(step 2 is %HH encoding)


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: SPARQL: IRIs vs RDF URI References
Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:08:06 +0000
Resent-From: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:07:52 +0200
From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org


Dear RDF Data Access Working Group,

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050721/ notes
in section 2.2, "Note that all IRIs are absolute; they may or may
not include a fragment identifier [3987, sec 3.1].  Also note that
IRIs include URIs [13] and URLs.  This definition also matches the
definition of RDF URI Reference from [12]." My reading of the re-
ference is that this is incorrect (depending on "matches"). RDF
allows for example U+0020 in its notion of "URI reference". Please
change the draft such that it does not make such apparently con-
tradictory statements.

regards,
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