- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:48:41 +0200
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- CC: Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com>, public-rdfa-wg <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
On 13.04.2011 12:03, Mark Birbeck wrote: > Hi Niklas, > > Everything you say is true. :) > > However, the big change in the working group's thinking came when we > decided that it was impossible to guarantee correct interpretation of > strings of text based solely on their format, and so instead we should > rely on the strings' contexts. > > By using context to aid in the interpretation of a string we get a lot > more flexibility, and we can unambiguously work out what things like > this mean: > > foaf:Agent > > Without context it *looks* like all of the following: > > * a string of text with no particular meaning; > * a QName; > * a CURIE; > * a relative URI using the 'foaf' scheme. > ... Hm, no. Relative (URI) references (what you call "relative URI") do not contain scheme names; see <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.4.2>. Best regards, Julian
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