- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:03:08 -0500
- To: connolly@w3.org
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
In an e-mail discussion Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> mentioned the existance of a data: URI Scheme. I was wondering if RDF parsers are supposed to understand all 82 URI schemes and what they are supposed to do with them. Peter Patel-Schneider From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> Subject: Re: added diagrams to "Using XML Schema Data Types..." Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:40:10 -0600 > "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote: > > > > From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> > > Subject: Re: added diagrams to "Using XML Schema Data Types..." > > Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:23:18 -0600 > > > > > "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote: > [...] > > > > Further, it appears to me that Dan's proposal breaks RDF in a very > > > > significant fashion, requiring literals (or at least datatype values) to be > > > > the source of properties. > > > > > > I don't see this as breaking RDF. It's always been > > > the case that you could look at the string "xyz" > > > as the resource data:,xyz and use it as the subject > > > of an assertion. > > > > Where is this described/defined? How is the URI ``data:,xyz'' related to > > the RDF literal xyz? > > RDF literals are a little underspecified, but assuming > we agree that the RDF literal xyz is nothing more > and nothing less than sequence > of the 3 characters x, y, z, then that's what data:,xyz is > specified to denote as well; > > Data: URL scheme, L. Masinter, August 1998. > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2397.txt > > (cited from our handy index of URI schemes > http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes#data ) > > Maybe this is a somewhat creative interpretation. > But again, from my perspective, it doesn't seem to > conflict with the way RDF works.
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