FW: QCodes [was: RE: CURIEs: A proposal]

Dear RDF-in-XHTML task force,

In the light of the clarification below, please would you be kind 
enough to tweak any statements in the forthcoming CURIE spec which 
relate to the IPTC's requirements.  In particular, the paragraph 
starting with:

   This is not a valid QName simply because '10112244' is not a 
   valid element name.  Yet the whole reason for using a QName in 
   the first place was to abbreviate the URI, and not to create a 
   namespace qualified element name.

is now seen to be incorrect.  The IPTC requires a qualified code 
in the form of a {scheme, code} tuple, rather than (just) an 
abbreviated URI.

Many thanks,
Misha


-----Original Message-----
From: Misha Wolf 
Sent: 04 July 2006 14:30
To: www-tag@w3.org; public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org; semantic-web@w3.org
Subject: QCodes [was: RE: CURIEs: A proposal]

On the basis of the survey of current and proposed uses of {prefix,
suffix} tuples [1] and the discussion with the TAG on June 27 [2],
I've concluded that CURIEs are not a good match for the IPTC's
requirements, as a CURIE is both named ("Compact URI") and designed 
(by the RDF-in-XHTML task force) to provide a compact representation
of an IRI, while the IPTC requires a compact representation of a 
{schemeAlias, code} tuple, which can be transformed to a schemeIRI 
(through the declaration of a schemeAlias/schemeIRI association) and
a codeIRI (through the use of a rule for constructing this IRI from a
schemeIRI and a code).  My current thinking is that we should define 
a QCode (Qualified Code), where:

   QCode       ::= SchemeAlias ':' Code
   SchemeAlias ::= NCNameChar+
   Code        ::= NCNameChar+

The schemeAlias/schemeIRI association is (in our case) declared using
the NewsML 2 <scheme> element:
   <scheme alias="foo" uri="http://..." />

We're still discussing which construction rule to recommend for the
building of a codeIRI from a schemeIRI and a code, as well as the 
closely related question of how to terminate schemeIRIs [1].

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2006Jun/0112.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2006/06/27-minutes.html

Misha
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