- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:58:38 +0100
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- CC: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Aaron, Aaron Swartz wrote: [...] > > ** Resolution > > Use of rdf:ID is equivalent to use of the equivalent rdf:about > attribute, obtained by prefixing the # character and > URI-encoding non-ASCII characters. I hate this when we get into wordsmithing when we all know what we mean - one advantage just deciding the test cases has is we usually don't have to do that. I just realised that rdf:ID can be used in situations where it is not equivalent to an rdf:about. Here is a suggested alternative wording of your resolution - feel free to improve suggest an another of your own: Where an rdf:ID attribute or an rdf:about attribute may be used to identify a resource, rdf:ID="xxx" is equivalent to rdf:about="#xxx". If the value of the rdf:ID attribute contains characters that are not legal in a URI, the usual escaping mechanism referred to in the Model and Syntax Recommendation is used to represent them in the equivalent rdf:about attribute. Brian
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