- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 11:22:26 -0400
- To: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@sidar.org>, "conor dowling" <conor@the325project.org>, semantic-web@w3.org
> At 16:50 08/05/05 +0200, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> >>2) rdf:about value and value of "?subject"
> >>
> >># can I get the "rdf:about" from every resource
> >>PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
> >>SELECT ?about
> >>WHERE { ?subject rdf:about ?about }
> >
> >I wondered how to do this. [...]
>
> That should *not* be valid, as rdf:about is part of the RDF/XML syntax, NOT
> an RDF property URI.
>
> cf.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#section-Namespace
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/#coreSyntaxTerms
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/
What you want there, I think, is log:uri, with a query engine which
implements it. Intuitively, rdf:about and log:uri are the same thing,
but as Graham points out, rdf:about is actually specified to be
handled completely differently, so (sadly) it wont work in this kind
of situation.
-- sandro
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