RE: does RDF require understanding all 82 URI schemes?

Sean B. Palmer wrote:
>
> But aren't http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema and
> http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema# completely equivalent when
> it comes to
> using them for XML Schema processing?

	No. They are two different namespaces. The namespace rec specifies that
namespace URIs are to be compared as literal strings.

>
> > If RDF has a different notion of namespaces than the rest of XML,
>
> It just has an odd method of using them... but you *cannot*
> restrict people
> to using a few special characters at the end of their RDF namespaces,
> because you could have alphanumeric strings that when concatenated, still
> point to the correct URI representation of a property.
>
> *Rule*: A namespace is any URI allowable in the XML Names specification.
>

	Of course. It is the rule unique to RDF that a qname is converted to a URI
by concatenation of a namespace URI and local name that causes the problem,
and desire to restrict namespace URIs to those ending with '#'. Nowhere else
does one find such URIs.

-Jonathan

Received on Monday, 12 February 2001 00:18:25 UTC