- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:55:11 -0800
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- CC: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, W3C RDFa task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Shane McCarron wrote:
>
> This actually raises an interesting point I was agonizing over just
> yesterday. Can someone explain to me *why* there is any value at all in
> permitting a safe_curie in @resource, @about, etc? If the only value is
> "the resulting source file is shorter" I don't find that compelling. I
> understand why I want to use CURIEs to scope identifiers in @rel, @rev,
> etc. I get that they can be deferenced into nifty RDF magic. But I
> don't see that making sense for @about or @resource. I must be missing
> something.
There's at least one notable use case: pointing to a "named" bnode.
<div about="[_:a]">
...
</div>
...
<a rel="foo:bar" resource="[_:a]">...</a>
-Ben
Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:55:23 UTC