Re: [rdfmsQnameUriMapping-6] Algorithm for creating a URI from a QName in RDF Model?

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:53:11PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> So restricting the algorithm to a specific subset of qnames will make it
> unusable for many specs.

I didn't say that there wouldn't be casualties 8-), only that it was a
solution usable for multiple URI schema.

> What if the namespace name isn't a URI (but a URI reference like
> "http://foo/bar#test")?

I believe that a namespace is a resource, not a document fragment, and
as such, should be identified by a URI, not a URI reference.

> Proposal:
> 
> define a new schema like "qn:" and map
> 
> 	(uriref, name)
> 
> to something like
> 
> 	qn:uri-escaped-utf8(name):uri-escaped(uriref)

The enormous cost of deploying new URI schemes has been talked about
here (and elsewhere) before.  I would recommend that we look for
solutions that reuse the HTTP scheme, and only consider a new one as a
last resort.

MB
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