Re: rdf:about=""?

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The empty URI reference refers to the base URI. What the base URI is
depends on the document context (simplified algorithm: xml:base if
available, otherwise network location of the document containing the
reference).

It's not in w3.org/tr, it's in the RFC that defines URIs, which I'm too
lazy to dig up, Google is your friend ;-)

- - Benja

DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) wrote:
| Adobe's specification for XMP [1] tells us that the rdf:about
attribute may
| be "an empty string ... which means that the XMP is physically local to
| the resource being described." I've seen other uses of rdf:about="" being
| used to indicate that the metadata shown describes the resource that
| contains it. I suppose it's the most abbreviated relative URI possible. Is
| it kosher? With or without xml:base being declared? Is this possibility
| described at any document in  <http://www.w3.org/tr> www.w3.org/tr? I
looked
| around and didn't see anything.
|
| (I am aware that XMP uses its own, uhhh, "profile" of RDF, so it may
be part
| of that.)
|
| thanks,
|
| Bob
|
| [1] http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/xmp/pdf/xmpspecification.pdf
| <http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/xmp/pdf/xmpspecification.pdf> ,
page 21
|
|

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