- From: R.V.Guha <guha@guha.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:04:02 -0700
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- CC: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>, Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, guha@alpiri.com, rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Ok, Aaron, you hit the nail on the head. RDF absolutely has to make sense even outside the context of an enclosing document which can be given a uri. so ... guha Aaron Swartz wrote: > On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 06:03 PM, Sergey Melnik wrote: > > > To clarify, the parsers will need to explicitly flag each generated > > resource as originating from an absolute or relative URL. Do we want to > > introduce these extra "flags" as a part of the model? > > I still don't understand. Why do parsers "generate" resources? > How do resources "originate" form URLs? > > It is my understanding that only absolute URIs identify > resources. Relative URIs are simply abbreviations for absolute > URIs which must be resolved through use of a base URI. An RDF > document without a base URI is meaningless -- have you ever > opened up an HTML page in your browser without a URL? > > -- > [ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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