- From: Kianoush Eshaghi <Kianoush.Eshaghi@metadat.at>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:15:10 +0200
- To: "'Fink, Clayton R.'" <Clayton.Fink@jhuapl.edu>
- Cc: "'RDF interesting groupe'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> I am looking for a deffinitive explanation of the difference. > It seems like > about only takes filly qualified URIs and ID doesn't. My > question is is > what is the dfference between: > > <somens:SomeClass rdf:about="http:///www.someont.org#AnInstance"> > > and > > > <somens:SomeClass rdf:ID="AnInstance"> > > ? > > I'm assuming that this is in OWL and that I'm trying to > instance the class > somens:SomeClass. > The semantics of both are equal. If you apply the abbreviation, xml:base="http://www.someont.org" will be included in the namespace area. Than you are able to write rdf:ID="AnInstance" in your RDF Model. Parsers solve that in "http://www.someont.org#AnInstance".
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