Re: URI/IRI Normalization in RDFa environments

I must admit I am lost:-(

If the source is that crazy hTtP://something, what should be the output? Is it http://something or should it keep the hTtP stuff?

Ivan

On Jan 19, 2011, at 23:26 , Nathan wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> It appears that all the major browser vendors do URI/URL normalization on relative refs, and values in common html attribute (@href and @src) - meaning that the URI/IRIs people can pull from RDFa when in an environment don't match the non-normalized RDF URI References intended.
> 
> I've thrown together a quick HTML only page to illustrate:
>  http://webr3.org/urinorm/html
> 
> And also an XHTML+RDFa 1.0 page here:
>  http://webr3.org/urinorm/2
> 
> Also pyRDFa and check.rdfa.info which fully normalizes values, and pyRDFa which seems to have conflicting functionality, producing htTp:// vs http:// depending on whether the value has needed path resolution (whilst treating the rest of the URI as case sensitive, as per RDF specs).
> 
> May be worth checking to see what you're own libraries do with the /2 example.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nathan
> 


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