- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:00:31 -0500
- To: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Cc: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, guha@alpiri.com, rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Sergey Melnik wrote: > Moreover, if the distinction between relative and absolute URLs > is required, the parsers will need to support it as well. What do you mean? Relative URIs are abbreviations for absolute URIs, and turn out to be very useful in practice. See: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Model http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/ModelConsequences RDF definitely needs relative URIs. What it sounds like you want is better ways of dealing with base URIs, which I agree with. -- [ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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