- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Fink, Clayton R." <Clayton.Fink@jhuapl.edu>
- Cc: "'www-rdf-interest@w3.org'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Fink, Clayton R. wrote: > >I am looking for a deffinitive explanation of the difference. It seems like >about only takes filly qualified URIs and ID doesn't. This is more or less right, although I would say that about can take a fully qualified URI and ID can't... ID establishes the fragment identifier (and can only appear once - like an ID attribute for XML elements, so you can validate it...) >My question is is >what is the dfference between: > ><somens:SomeClass rdf:about="http:///www.someont.org#AnInstance"> > >and > > ><somens:SomeClass rdf:ID="AnInstance"> > Assuming that this document has a base of http://www.someont.org then these two things are equivalent. But the first one can actually appear anywhere in any document - I can write about things in your documents using rdf:about... cheers Chaals
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