- From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:52:32 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Excuse me for zoning in on this a bit late, but what exactly is the state of play regarding namespaces in RDF? As I understand it, an xmlns-qualified name is a pair of (namespace URI, name); there is no composition function implied apart from the trivial "shove both bits into a pair". But RDF claims that resources are (or are identified by) URIs only; there seems to be an (implicit? explicit?) composition function that takes the namespace and the name part and produces a URI from them. Can someone please clear this up for me once and for all? jan PS. Obviously a pair of (nsuri, name) can be uniquely mapped onto a URI using some cheesy hack like inventing a URI scheme like nselement:[nsuri]name but there's probably a better way to do this. -- 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 HP-unix: Open Sauce product, available in 57 distributions.
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