- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:52:40 +0100
- To: "'Tim Berners-Lee'" <timbl@w3.org>, pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
Indeed... "RDF/XML Syntax Specification Revised" [1] gives number of examples that contain what I think Tim would regard as 'illegal' references. Figure 1 contains the following URI References as property names: http://www.example.org/terms/editor http://www.example.org/terms/homePage http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title http://www.example.org/terms/fullName Stuart -- [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-rdf-syntax-grammar-20030123/#section-Syntax-nod e-property-elements > -----Original Message----- > From: Williams, Stuart [mailto:skw@hp.com] > Sent: 17 July 2003 12:32 > To: 'Tim Berners-Lee'; pat hayes > Cc: www-tag@w3.org; Pat Hayes > Subject: RE: resources and URIs > > > > Tim (or Pat), > > > No, that would be illegal by my way of thinking. > > http://chandra.harvard.edu/NGC/ngc1068 is an information resource. > > You would expect > > > > > > <rdf:Description > > rdf:about="http://chandra.harvard.edu/NGC#ngc1068" > > rdf:type="http://chandra.harvard.edu/AOtype/Activegalaxy7" > > </rdf:Description> > > > > or, in the http://chandra.harvard.edu/NGC information ressource,, > > > > <rdf:Description > > rdf:about="#ngc1068" > > rdf:type="http://chandra.harvard.edu/AOtype/Activegalaxy7" > > </rdf:Description> > > > > where you can see that local identifiers can be used to refer > > to abstract things, because that is what the RDF language > spec says. > > Can you provide a reference to what the RDF language spec > actually says on this topic, I'd like to read it for myself. > > I was under there impression that RDF gave URI References > (2396 terminology) an entirely opaque treatment. > > Thanks, > > Stuart > -- >
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