Re: RDF Issue rdfms-uri-substructure

>At 03:29 PM 4/22/02 +0100, Jan Grant wrote:
>>  > and we advise implementors of RDF serializers:
>>>
>>>  (e) in order to break a URI into a namespace name and a local name, split
>>>  it after the last XML non-name character.  If the URI ends in a
>>>  non-name-character throw a "this graph cannot be serialized in RDF 1.0"
>>>  exception.
>
>I'm reminded that this doesn't guarantee a well-formed local name [1]; e.g.
>
>   http://example.org/path/1abc
>
>The local name is not allowed to start with a digit, even though 
>it's a valid XML name character.

Is this an XML bug or a local-name bug? (Ie which is likely to get 
changed first?)

>  In my code, I break this *after* the "1"; i.e.
>
>   ns='http://example.org/path/1'  localname='abc'

Yuk, that seems worse than throwing an exception. Is there even a 
slight likelihood that is what was intended?

Pat


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