On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>wrote: > Nice work Dan. > > On 14 Apr 2011, at 14:18, Dan Brickley wrote: > > rdfms-qnames-can't represent-all-uris: The RDF XML syntax cannot > > represent all possible Property URI's. > > > > CONTINUE: Noted, RDF/XML does not allow all possible property URIs to > > be represented. This issue remains open, while the WG explores the > > impact of IRIs on RDF; however > > RDF/XML is unlikely to change beyond the basic minimum needed. Other > > formats (Turtle, n-triples) are available as alternatives to RDF/XML > > where difficult property > > names are unavoidable. Vocabulary authors have an incentive to choose > > RDF property URIs that will work with all syntaxes, including classic > > RDF/XML." > > Propose to CLOSE instead. This is a long-known problem in RDF/XML, users > have learned to live with it, there is no easy fix, and updating from > URIrefs to IRIs is unlikely to change anything here. > +1 - The character string "http://example.com/" cannot be made into an XML QName, regardless of whether treated as a URIref or IRI. Making that usable as a predicate IRI in RDF/XML would involve a more far-reaching change to the syntax than I think this WG cares to take on. -Alex
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