- From: Yoshio Fukushige <fukushige.yoshio@jp.panasonic.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:37:57 +0900
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
- Cc: fukushige.yoshio@jp.panasonic.com
Hi Nomad, I think the "Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies"[1], a W3C Working Draft from the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment WG may help you, in addition to Danny's advice here, especially when choosing which way to use. Cheers, Yoshio fukushige.yoshio@jp.panasonic.com On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:14:06 +0200 Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 21/09/06, NOMADMY <nomadmy@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 1.) Why some ended with '#' and some can be ended with '/'? > > 2.) Why have 2 different format? > > 3.) What is the '#' means? > > The exact definitions will be in the specs somewhere, and my history > may not be accurate, but roughly: > > XML Namespaces says how to create a space for names using URIs, so > > <ex:something xmlns:w="http://example.org/space/" /> > > means that the term "something" used here is in the > "http://example.org/space/" namespace. > > RDF goes a step further in saying that the terms are themselves are > identified with URIs, which are constructed by prefixing the local > name with the namespace URI. URI syntax supports (at least?) two ways > of doing this this namespace+name concatenation, with namespace URIs > that end with "/" (slash) and those that end with "#" (hash), e.g. > > <ex:something xmlns:w="http://example.org/space/" /> > > means that the term "something" used here is the term with the URI > http://example.org/space/something > > similarly: > > <ex:something xmlns:w="http://example.org/space#" /> > > means that the term "something" used here is the term with the URI > http://example.org/space#something > > Without hash or slash you'd end up with URIs like > http://example.org/spacesomething, which is harder to pull apart. > > The # in URIs is know as a fragment identifier (frag id), it > originates in HTML where a part of a document can be addressed using > anchors - e.g. > > <a href="http://example.org/space#something">there</a> > links to > <a id="something">here</a> in the HTML for http://example.org/space > > There's been plenty of debate over whether using # or / is better for > RDF vocabularies (nearest to resolution is "it depends"). More > background & links at : http://esw.w3.org/topic/HashVsSlash > > Cheers, > Danny. > > -- > > http://dannyayers.com -- Yoshio Fukushige <fukushige.yoshio@jp.panasonic.com> Network Development Center, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
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