- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:28:56 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Thursday, June 28, 2001, at 12:58 PM, Brian McBride wrote: > 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. Ahh, good point. Brian and Jan, is the wording: Usage of an rdf:ID attribute to identify the subject of a description, is equivalent to usage of an rdf:about attribute with the same content, except prefixed by a '#' character and URI encoded. acceptable to both of you? -- [ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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