Re: #rdfms-difference-between-ID-and-about

I concur.  This was an issue we were wrestling with for CC/PP.  I had 
thought that xml:base would help there, but that's not so clear now.

(The problem is, I suspect, not so much one of interpreting rdf:id='foo' as 
equivalent to rdf:about='#foo', but how to interpret any labelling of the 
form rdf:about='#foo'.)

#g
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At 06:31 PM 6/13/01 -0700, R.V.Guha wrote:
>This whole distinction between ID and about is trouble
>waiting to happen.
>
>RDF may be embedded in messages (like SOAP) that might not have
>a url of any sort. In this case, the distinction between id and about,
>and
>the proposal to use "#" which is based on the idea of anchors all lead
>to nothing but trouble.
>
>guha
>
>Brian McBride wrote:
>
> > With reference to action:
> >
> >   AP: 2001-06-08#4: Brian McBride to write up this third proposed
> >        interpretation
> >
> > A third proposal is to regard:
> >
> >   <rdf:Description rdf:ID="foo"/>
> >
> > as equivalent to:
> >
> >   <rdf:Description rdf:about="#foo"/>
> >
> > Brian

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