Re: Expansion of tag and attribute names as URI reference

• From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@w3.org>
• Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:49:33 -0400
• To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
• Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
• Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980825124933.02d44490@127.0.0.1>

At 01:47 PM 8/24/98 +0700, James Clark wrote:
>The RDF draft talks about the expansion of namespace-qualified tag and
>attribute names.  ...  It
>seems like there's a missing piece that needs to be specified: how to
>get from the expansion as defined in the namespaces WD into a URI
>reference.

Yes, quite right James; thank you for noticing this omission.

>  RDF's answer seems to be that you simply concatenate the
>namespace URI with the local part of the tag or attribute name, which is
>fine, but doesn't seem at the moment to be stated explicitly in either
>the namespaces WD or the RDF WD.

You are correct.  This simple concatenation should be specified
in Section 6.

-Ralph

Received on Tuesday, 25 August 1998 12:51:55 UTC