- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:39:10 +0200
- To: "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: "Misha Wolf" <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:10:38 +0200, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote: >> 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 I think that depends on your point of view, and is not really an essential distinction. Are URIs a method of assigning a name to a resource, or a collection of methods? Depends on whether you look at the syntax of a URI or what happens when the URI is dereferenced. Misha's proposal is at the moment just that: a proposal; I have some sympathy for the ability to define separate methods for concatenating the prefix and suffix of a CURIE (the XHTML namespace, like so many, doesn't end in a slash or a hash, and so using QNames I would have to learn to live with http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlindex for the 'index' rel rather than http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/index or http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml#index), however, I currently prefer the simplicity of just using concatenation. Steven
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