Issue #williams-02 s/URIref/IRI/

At 17:48 20/02/2003 +0100, Jeremy Carroll wrote:

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> >
> > 4) Section 6. Abstract Syntax (Normative)
>Brian: name of issue is "s/URIref/IRI/"
> >
> > Prior to section 6 the document consistently uses the terms URI and URI
> > Reference. This section then switches to using the term "RDF URI 
> Reference".
> > This feels awkward. Firstly, typical informal usages is for "HTTP URI" 
> or an
> > "FTP URI" or a "MAILTO URI" to be use to speak of URI scheme specific URI,
> > hence "RDF URI Reference" is suggestive of an 'rdf' URI scheme which is not
> > the case. Secondly, the apparent need to prefix the term "URI Reference"
> > with 'RDF' leads one to ask what distiguishes an "RDF URI Reference" 
> from an
> > ordinary "URI Reference". Section 6.4 gives some account (more comments on
> > 6.4 below) - which indicates that the authors would probably have preferred
> > to be using Internationalised Resource Identifiers. It is unfortunate 
> that a
> > normative spec. for IRI's is not available for normative reference. I think
> > it would be better for section 6 to either speak of URI References a la
> > RFC2396 or to anticipate IRI and speak of them instead, in anticipation of
> > an appropriate work to reference. As is, the term "RDF URI Reference" might
> > be seen by some as yet another example of RDF taking some well understood
> > term and using it in a gratuitously different way.
> >
> > This document needs to decide whether it is dealing in URI or IRI and then
> > be consistent throughout.
>
>As you have understood the definition of an RDF URI reference
>is intended to be an IRI as understood by XML Namespaces 1.1.
>We could reference XML Namespaces 1.1 directly.
>
>Is your preferred change to globally substitute URI reference for
>IRI throughout the RDF recommendations? Or did you have something
>less extensive in mind?
>
>A further technicality is to do with Unicode NFC.
>The Namespace 1.1 defn does not mention this,
>although it is implicit in as much as Namespaces 1.1
>is understood within the context of XML 1.1,
>in which all attribute values must be in NFC.
>
>The RDF specs, structured differently, cannot
>piggy back such a feature on XML 1.1 which is
>not assumed by RDF. (In fact RDF Concepts tries
>hard not to assume XML but is intended to be
>open to languages like N3).

Stuart,

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Thanks again for taking the time to review the WG's drafts.

Brian

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