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

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.

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Received on Thursday, 14 June 2001 18:01:53 UTC