Re: [rdfa-api] IRI References

Yes, I would think so. Wording is pretty much a direct lift from RDFa
though, which has all of this in.

On Sunday, November 28, 2010, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
> Cheers Mark,
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> Thus I guess we'll be needing some base functionality and notes about resolving relative references in there (?)
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> Best,
>
> Nathan
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> Mark Birbeck wrote:
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> Hi Nathan,
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> RDF only uses IRIs, that's true, but RDF *serialisations* generally
> use IRI references.
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> Note that an 'IRI reference' is not just a relative IRI as I think you
> are implying -- they can also be absolute. That's why 'IRI reference'
> is usually used in specs where you want to allow both relative /and/
> absolute paths. In those situations using the definition for 'IRI'
> wouldn't work, because that would then require a scheme and a path,
> ruling out relative IRIs.
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> I think it's important to allow relative IRIs in the API. Obviously
> they have to be converted to absolute IRIs in order to obtain RDF, but
> as with RDF serialisations they're an important and useful shortcut
> for programmers.
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> Regards,
>
> Mark
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> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> Throughout the API documentation, it references "IRI References", however to
> the best of my knowledge the API, and RDF uses only "IRI"s, and in fact IRI
> References (../foo) aren't used at all.
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>  IRI = scheme ":" ihier-part [ "?" iquery ] [ "#" ifragment ]
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> Correct? or?
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> Best,
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> Nathan
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