- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:35:02 +0000
- To: "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 08:06 AM 2/12/01 -0500, Ralph R. Swick wrote: >It seems to be a common misperception that RDF 1.0 _requires_ >a specific character in the right-most position of a namespace URI. >This was not the intention of the RDF designers and a careful >reading of http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/ >will reveal that neither "#" nor "/" is required at the end. Indeed, >there was much discussion about whether RDF should choose a >specific delimiter when concatenating the namespace name with >the local name and it was decided to leave the full URI entirely >within the scope of the namespace owner to define. This is true, but I also note a related issue concerning the formation of resource URIs from <Description ID=...>: the requirement for '#' is not explicitly stated, but it is implicitly required by the ID value being used as a fragment identifier. I acknowledge this is a different issue from that previously discussed, but I think there is some overlap which adds to the general confusion; viz. in schema one may define things using ID= constructs, which are later referenced using namespace constructions. #g ------------ Graham Klyne GK@NineByNine.org
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