- From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:18:55 +0100 (BST)
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- cc: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote: > 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? Fine by me, and I apologise for my earlier nit-picking. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "Sufficiently large"="infinite" for sufficiently large values of "sufficiently"
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