- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:10:38 -0500
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 22:56 +0200, Steven Pemberton wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:44:16 +0200, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote: > > >> 7 Each language must specify: > > > > It's already the case that we have a generic URI syntax specification, > > which includes one abbreviation mechanism (URI references), and > > every format/syntax can use URI references and/or other > > URI abbreviation mechanisms. > > > > It's not clear to me what CURIEs are, beyond that. > > Let's try an elevator pitch: > > CURIEs are a way of abbreviating URIs. Not as far as I can tell. From what I can tell, CURIEs are a collection of ways of abbreviating URIs. At least, that's what's proposed in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2006Jun/0007.html > They are useful for authoring when > a number of similar URIs have to be repeatedly used. They also > significantly reduce the size of certain types of document. QNames have > been used for this purpose in several specifications, but apart from some > philosophical problems with their use, because of restrictions on their > syntax they also don't allow the abbreviation of arbitrary URIs, which > gets in the way of markup that needs to allow just that. > > Steven -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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