Re: RDF 2.0 Wishlist - Legal RDF which I can't SPARQL

On 29 Jul 2010, at 15:43, Damian Steer wrote:

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> On 29 Jul 2010, at 15:05, Mischa Tuffield wrote:
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>> Hello, 
>> 
>> On 29 Jul 2010, at 13:51, Damian Steer wrote:
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>>> Personally I would follow IRI and fix turtle. Why should RDF have its own URL/URI/IRI-ish syntax?
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>> Do you think that the same logic should be applied to rdfxml too ? Otherwise there will be things you can write in turtle and not in rdfxml which you can subsequently sparql, which simply doesn't feel right to me. 
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> Oh yes, s/URIRef/IRI/ everywhere possible. For reference, [1] provides the rationale for the original decision not to do this substitution.
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> Damian
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> [1] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003AprJun/0031.html>

Thanks for the link, being an undergrad at that point in time, I didn't know what RDF was. I am guessing the key part of that email you linked is the bit which states : 

>   RESOLVED (prop bwm, second gk, 0 agin, jjc abst)
>   We continue to use the term "RDF URI reference" [although 
> we note that
>   the definition currently aligns with that of an absolute IRI ref.]
>   ...
Which I don't think it true at the moment, but I may be wrong. 

Thanks for the link, 

Mischa 
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