- From: Benja Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 17:26:06 +0200
- To: "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>
- CC: Pedro Assis in Oporto <passis@dee.isep.ipp.pt>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi, Tony,
Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) wrote:
> Have I missed something here? Isn't case-sensitivity really a property of
> the URI scheme - not of RDF? There are case-insensitive URI schemes out
> there, e.g. "tel:", "fax:", "modem:".
A URI scheme or a Web authority may define that two URIs differing only
in case are equivalent. However, generic RDF processors will not
recognize this; you'd have to state e.g.
<mailto:foo@example.org> owl:sameAs <mailto:foo@Example.org>
Of course, you can teach any specific RDF processor that specific URI
schemes are case-insensitive, but you cannot assume this to be known by
everybody.
RDF does define that any two URIs differing only in case are to be
treated differently *in the general case*-- a processor cannot assume
them to be equivalent.
Clearer what I meant? :-)
Cheers,
- Benja
Received on Friday, 1 August 2003 11:27:57 UTC