- From: Stephen Cranefield <SCranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:53:46 +1200
- To: "'Aaron Swartz'" <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Cc: RDF-Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Aaron Swartz wrote (in reply to me): > > Unfortunately, the current XML syntax only supports the use of > > QNames with a > > namespace having a '#'-friendly URI scheme. > > This is false. The Dublin Core namespace > (http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/) does not use a '#'. I said it only supports namespaces using *schemes* that are '#'-friendly. The http: scheme is '#'-friendly, by which I mean that you can use the "ending in a '#'" convention safely with it, so your example does not contradict my statement. However, there exist URI schemes that are not '#'-friendly, and there is nothing in the RDF specification that says these shouldn't be used with the namespaces in QNames. - Stephen
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