RE: Datatypes in RDF (was: RDFCore Update)

> >       <rdf:type rdf:resource="x:dataType"/>

> <rant>
> Although many vocabularies are doing so I am usually very 
> reluctant to 
> use qualified names in attributes or element values.

The use of qnames as attribute values or in content data aside,
the above resource is a URV namespace, hence a URI. Yes, I 
know it looks like a qname. Perhaps it should have been written
as "x:dataType:". If you haven't already, please read my X-Values
proposal (I don't want to repeat it here). 

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2001OctDec/0088.html

This brings up the question, which I asked in another thread
yesterday, about whether one can treat a URI scheme prefix
or URN/URV namespace prefix as a URI.

E.g. are "http:" or "urn:issn:" URI's? Can I use them to 
make statements about those schemes? If not, why not?
(all RDF parsers I've used seem quite happy to treat them as URIs)

And personally, I think the ability to use qnames in attributes
is highly desireable and will have a great impact on future user
acceptance of RDF XML serializations (which are *very* cumbersome
to write manually -- or require the use of ENTITY tricks to achieve
the same level of compression and convenience as qnames but 
introduce yet another representation for a URI). XML Schema got it
right IMO by allowing qnames as values of URI typed attributes.

Cheers,

Patrick

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Received on Saturday, 20 October 2001 02:14:04 UTC