RE: Formation of RDF terms

Aaron,

I'm assuming that when you say "RDF term" you mean the URI
of a property.

Given a strict interpretation of the spec, what you say is
not correct, but in most cases it probably is.

I could have:

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="..."
         xmlns:foo="http://foo">
  <rdf:Description>
    <foo:bar>foobar</foo:bar>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

In this case the <foo:bar> would represent a property whose
URI is http://foobar and if you split that at the last '/'
then you won't get the right split.

It is good practise when defining RDF namespaces to end them
in a character like '/' or '#' that can't be part of an XML
Qname.  If you do that, and many do,then your algorithm works
just fine.

My Jena implementation uses the algorithm you describe when
a property object is constructed from a URI.  It also provides
a constructor which enables an application to specify
explicitly the namespace and localname parts of the URI.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Swartz [mailto:aswartz@upclink.com]
> Sent: 24 January 2001 18:56
> To: RDF Interest
> Subject: Formation of RDF terms
> 
> 
> I have a question on the formation of RDF terms:
> 
> For a given RDF term x, can it be assumed that for every 
> character following
> the last # (or if none exists, the last /) is the name and 
> the rest is the
> namespace?
> 
> Example:
> 
>  http://example.webns.net/term/fries/smelly
>     Namespace: http://example.webns.net/term/fries/
>     Term: smelly
> 
>  http://example.webns.net/term/fries#smelly
>     Namespace: http://example.webns.net/term/fries#
>     Term: smelly
> 
> Is this correct? (This would mean that no RDF terms could 
> include a / or a
> #, right?)
> 
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Received on Thursday, 25 January 2001 13:22:50 UTC