RE: silly question about rdf:about

At 11:26 AM 4/15/02 +0900, Martin Duerst wrote:
>At 17:55 02/04/12 +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:
>
>>Based on:
>>   :p1 a :Person; :homePage <http://www.NineByNine.org>
>>and
>>   :p2 a :Person; :homePage <http://www.ninebynine.org>
>>alone, I'd be hard pushed to conclude :p1 and :p2 both denote the same 
>>person.
>>
>>And then there's:
>>   :p2 a :Person; :homePage <http://www.%6eineby%6eine.org>
>>where does one draw the line?
>
>Sorry, but that's not an URI. The URI syntax forbids escapes
>in the host name. Some browsers and other software accept it,
>while others don't.

OK, that was a bad example, dashed off too hurriedly.  But the initial 
point remains:  should URI-scheme knowledge be generally allowable in 
determining the equivalence of a pair of RDF resource identifiers?

#g


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Graham Klyne
<GK@NineByNine.org>

Received on Monday, 15 April 2002 04:04:28 UTC