Re: Question on FHIR references - relative and absolute URIs

If we want the RDF to be an equal sibling to xml and JSON then round
tripping needs to be signature safe.  At the moment, that means retaining
absolute vs. relative references.

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016, Grahame Grieve <
grahame@healthintersections.com.au> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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