Re: Editorial changes to clarify usage of URIs / Absolute URIs and @profile

Ivan Herman wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:12 , Nathan wrote:
> 
>> Hi Shane,
>>
>> Following on from two discussions on the list about the use of @profiles, and confusion over the terminology "TERMorCURIEorAbsURI" in the current RDFa-Core draft, I'd propose the following clarifications to the spec.
>>
>> define:
>>
>>  URI
>>    URI  = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]
>>    A URI conforming to the Generic URI Syntax, as per section 3 of
>>    RFC3986 [1]
>>
>>  AbsoluteURI
>>    absolute-URI  = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ]
>>    An absolute-URI as per section 4.3 of RFC 3986 [2]
> 
> Wait, I am not sure I understand this.
> 
> I do _not_ think that it is worthwhile for us to restrict a @profile value to be an AbsoluteURI in this sense. What you do is to remove the optional fragment, and I think that this is unnecessary on the specification level. We can add some warning on the effect of cache, but that is it.
> 
> What I want to be sure of is that I could not do something like
> 
> @profile="#me"
> 
> ie, a 'pure' fragment ID, ie, a relative URI. (The same, probably, for @vocab.) But the URI specification you quote in the document seems to exclude that anyway. Ie, the spec is probably fine as far as I am concerned, it is just that some explanation might be worth somewhere that we do not use relative URI-s.

what about @profile="../foo" (and likewise vocab) ?

Received on Tuesday, 8 February 2011 11:25:22 UTC