Re: Question on FHIR references - relative and absolute URIs

well, this is tricky. technically, it's not strictly required, but it's a
lossy transform (lossy in both ways, in fact). One of the attractions of
fhir;reference for me is that you can have an absolute reference for RDF
and preserve the original fhir url

Grahame


On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:01 AM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:

> Grahame and/or Lloyd,
>
> In today's FHIR RDF teleconference, a question came up about relative and
> absolute URIs in FHIR references.
>
> Must absolute and relative references be round tripped as is?  I.e., do we
> need to maintain the distinction between relative and absolute references
> when round tripping, or can relative URIs be turned into absolute URIs and
> vice versa?
>
> I did not see any mention of normalizing references in the discussion of
> Canonical JSON:
> https://hl7-fhir.github.io/json.html
>
> Thanks,
> David Booth
>
>


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