RE: INSEE releases OWL ontology and RDF data for geographical entities

Eric,

I thought I understood you, until the last five words: 'you won't have
roundtrip'.
Please elaborate on what you exactly mean with that roundtrip.

Thanks,
Hans
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From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Eric van der Vlist
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:41
To: Xiaoshu Wang
Cc: 'Dan Connolly'; semantic-web@w3.org; public-xg-geo@w3.org
Subject: RE: INSEE releases OWL ontology and RDF data for geographical
entities

Xiaoshu,

Le samedi 05 août 2006 à 17:45 -0400, Xiaoshu Wang a écrit :
[...]
> The reason for me to raise this question is this.  Unlike hash URI, 
> the namespace URI can not be "inferred" or "guessed" from a URI 
> itself.  For instance, a URI of http://foo.com/bar can be constructed 
> with namespace http://foo.com/, http://foo.com/b or http://foo.com/ba 
> coupled with local ID of "bar", "ar" and "r", respectively.

That's just a minor detail since all this would be bad practises, but in the
same horrors show category, I don't see why you couldn't define namespace
names such as http://foo.com#b or http://foo.com#ba and hashes do not allow
to "infer or guess" (as you say) namespaces names more reliably than slashes
:) !

Note that the RDF recommendation gives a rule about how this kind of
"inference":

"It is recommended that implementors of RDF serializers, in order to break a
URI into a namespace name and a local name, split it after the last XML
non-NCName character, ensuring that the first character of the name is a
Letter or '_'. If the URI ends in a non-NCName character then throw a "this
graph cannot be serialized in RDF/XML" exception or error."

This means that if your namespace URI ends with a letter, you won't have
roundtrip.

Eric

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