- From: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:57:00 +0200
- To: distobj@acm.org, uri@w3.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org]
> Sent: 22 November, 2001 00:05
> To: Stickler Patrick (NRC/Tampere)
> Subject: Re: RFC2518 (WebDAV) / RFC2396 (URI) inconsistency
>
>
> (not to the list)
>
> > > IMO, a URI scheme has identity, and so should be able to
> be identified
> > > by a URI reference.
> >
> > Right. Insofar as RDF is concerned, which provides for a
> > concatenative mapping from qname to URI, you could do the
> > following:
> >
> > <dav:creationdate xmlns:dav="dav:"/>
> >
> > Where "dav:" is both a URI denoting the URI scheme, and an xmlns
> > prefix. Which is which is 100% clear in the XML syntax.
>
> But "dav:" is not a URI, as it meets no valid URI production.
I'm aware of that.
My proposal was specifically:
URI ::= scheme ":"
URI ::= "urn" ":" <NID> ":"
The first case is not a valid URI for the scheme, but is a valid
URI denoting the scheme. The second case is not a valid URI for
the URN namespace, but is a valid URI denoting the URN namespace.
Patrick
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