- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:06:50 +0200
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Brian McBride" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:03 PM > To: Julian Reschke > Cc: Mark Baker; Brian McBride; Tim Bray; www-tag@w3.org > Subject: 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. Well. The XML namespaces recommendation allows URI references. > > 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. XML namespace names in URI schemes other than HTTP are very common. So we need to clarify whether it's a requirement to map those QNames as well. I think if we don't, this mapping isn't generic, and there's little value in discussing it here...
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