Re: JSON-LD onsite examples: are @context values missing a trailing slash?

>
> "The difference is that a @context value (if it is a string) represents a
> URL to a context definition."


Of course it is! For some obscure reason my brain was looking at @context
as if it's working is the same as @vocab. So thanks for pointing out
something I should have realized before asking my question.   o_O

2015-02-18 2:19 GMT+01:00 Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>:

>  On 2/17/15 6:30 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:
>
>  On Feb 17, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
> wrote:
>
>  On 2/17/15 12:53 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:
>
>  On Feb 17, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I noticed that the @context value in the JSON-LD examples on schema.org's
>> site are noted as:
>>
>>  "@context": "http://schema.org",
>>
>>  Where "http://schema.org" doesn't contain a trailing slash.
>>
>>  Yet when I look at the official specs (http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/) I
>> see all values do contain a trailing slash, eg:
>>
>>  "@context": {
>>      "@vocab": "http://schema.org/"
>> }
>>
>>  Now to me it seems that urls without a trailing slash would resolve in
>> urls like for example schema.orgArticle as opposed to schema.org/Article,
>> which makes me wonder whether or not the slash matters for the @context.
>>
>>  Any thoughts?
>>
>
>  The difference is that a @context value (if it is a string) represents a
> URL to a context definition. This is mechanically dereferenced before
> anything is interpreted. The @vocab value on the other hand, is used
> syntactically to construct URIs by concatenating it with local terms (as
> you describe).
>
>
>  Exactly. Some sites will force a redirect if the URL does not end in a
> "/", but schema.org does not, so in this case it doesn't really matter.
> For other uses, this could result in a redirect, but a conforming JSON-LD
> processor will handle this transparently.
>
>  Gregg
>
>
> Gregg,
>
> This heuristic needs some clear emphasis in the JSON-LD specs related
> docs, if that isn't the case already.
>
> "@context": "http://schema.org" isn't good practice, having users depend
> on processors to support such a heuristic (consistently) will be
> problematic.
>
> Does it really hurt anyone to state:
>
> "@context": "http://schema.org/" ?
>
>
>  This isn't a JSON-LD heuristic, but a general web server mechanism to
> handle ill-formed URLs.
>
>
>  As it happens, although it's common practice, http://schema.org is not a
> valid URL, as it doesn't have a path component. However, it's common
> practice for web servers to handle such URLs by normalizing them, in this
> case, by adding a trailing '/'. Some servers do this by redirecting the
> agent to the proper resource, it seems that schema.org simply returns the
> expected resource.
>
>  JSON-LD simply follows redirects when requesting resources, as most any
> other HTTP agent would do (such as a web browser).
>
>
> The "JSON-LD" mention lead to my JSON-LD spec comment.
>
>
>  Of course, it's always good practice to use well-formed URLs, which
> means that "@context": "http://schema.org/" is correct, but practice
> shows that this doesn't end up mattering.
>
>
> It does matter.
>
> Being precise always trumps being imprecise, in the hope that some
> heuristic is global :)
>
> Kingsley
>
>
>  The JSON-LD API does not call this out specifically, as that's part of
> HTTP, although there is a brief mention of recording the eventual
> redirected URL due to redirects [1]. There are numerous tests on handling
> remote documents that JSON-LD processors must pass to be considered
> conformant.
>
>  [1]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld-api/#remote-document-and-context-retrieval
>
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