- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:55:15 -0600
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- CC: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com> wrote:
>> Also I note that your <...> construct in N3 cannot be easily nested inside of
>> XML .. which i take as a real drag.
> So do I, but you can't simply remove it because http: would be interpreted
> as a namespace alias! There needs to be something there that says "this is
> a URI".
It's more than just the issue of namespace aliases -- it's the fundamental
fact that there's no way to pick out what a URI is. Here are some URIs
(inside quotes):
""
"../"
"http://www.yahoo.com/"
"bob"
"./foaf:wednesday"
"mid:huh@w3.org"
There's really no way to detect them with out some sort of special syntax.
One way that might work is something like:
URI:http://www.yahoo.com
and ban URI as a namespace prefix in N3. You could also figure out some
other sort of delimiter for URIs that didn't conflict with XML.
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[ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]
Received on Wednesday, 31 January 2001 17:55:55 UTC