Re: Web services returning RDF? from Benja Fallenstein on 2004-10-14 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from October 2004)

From: Benja Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:19:12 +0300
To: Ian Dickinson <ian.dickinson@hp.com>
CC: Morten Frederiksen <mof-rdf@mfd-consult.dk>, RDF interest group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Message-ID: <416DC600.7090707@gmx.de>

Ian Dickinson wrote:
> <rdf:Description 
> rdf:about="http://www.wasab.dk/morten/2004/04/twilight/?latitude=51.4&amp;longitude=-2.7&amp;date=2004-10-13"> 
> 
>   <ns1:primaryTopic rdf:nodeID="r1096999731r40"/>
> 
> Looks like one too many passes through the URL encoder perhaps?

Uh, how so? The URI dereferences just fine.

If it's because of the &amp;s, remember that you're reading XML. Using a 
plain & would cause an XML parsing error (in fact I remember reading 
that not encoding &s as &amp;s in URIs is one of the most common XML 
well-formedness errors people make).

Cheers,
- Benja

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