- From: McBride, Brian <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:00:28 -0000
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> local-only URIs, which can be used anywhere but are in effect > existentially quantified within the page of use (and for which any > associated operational process is relative to the page of use). I don't think this is right. There is no such thing as a local URI. When names like "#Boston" are used in and XML serialization of RDF, this is a syntactic shorthand for the fully qualified URI. The fully qualified URI is constructed by appending a base URI to fragment identifier "#Boston". The default base URI is the URI of containing document, but may be overridden using xmlbase. When an RDF parser meets a name like "#Boston", it converts it to the fully qualified form, and that is what appears in the triples it generates. In an RDF document, say http://foo <rdf:Property rdf:about="#bar">foobar</rdf:Property> and <rdf:Property rdf:about="http://foo#bar>foobar</rdf:Property> are exactly equivalent. There are no local only URI's. Brian McBride HPLabs PS: Lynn - sorry got this twice
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