- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:09:59 +0000
- To: pachampi@caramail.com
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
Pierre-Antoine,
In
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0024.html
you raised an issue which was captured in
http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-difference-between-ID-and-about
as
[[[
what is the difference between writing <Description ID="bar"> and
<Description about="#bar">? Why is ID needed?
]]]
As recorded in
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Dec/0108.html
the RDFCore WG resolved:
The new syntax WD resolves this issue.
(The new WD can be found at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20011218
I would summarize that the WG decided that rdf:ID="foo" is a synonym for
rdf:about="#foo". There are some differences between the characters
allowed in an rdf:ID attribute value and those allowed in an rdf:about
attribute value that require some tidying up.
Please could you respond to this message, copying www-rdf-comments@w3.org
indicating whether this is an acceptable resolution of this issue.
Brian McBride
RDFCore co-chair
Received on Thursday, 20 December 2001 09:56:27 UTC