- From: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:34:49 +0000
- To: Bob DuCharme <bob@snee.com>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 13:45 -0500, Bob DuCharme wrote: > The SPARQL specs says in two places that "IRIs are a subset of RDF URI > References that omits spaces." I have trouble seeing it as a subset for > two reasons: > > 1. The http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt document that it references > says that it "defines a new protocol element called Internationalized > Resource Identifier (IRI) by extending the syntax of URIs to a much > wider repertoire of characters." Note that those statements in the SPARQL spec are not about URIs but about "RDF URI References" [1], these are not the same thing. RDF URI References were an attempt by the RDF Core WG to be compatible with IRIs before the IRI spec was finalized - an attempt which was very successful apart from the the handling of spaces. Dave [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/#section-Graph-URIref
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