Re: rel=CURIE in RDFa, but rel=URI in Link:

Jonathan Rees wrote:
> 
> Not sure who to tell about this now, but it does seem to bear on our 
> discussion of CURIE/URI confusion.
> 
> Quoth http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/#relValues :
> 
> @rel a whitespace separated list of CURIEs, used for expressing 
> relationships between two resources ('predicates' in RDF terminology);
> 
> Quoth http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-02.txt :
> Link = "Link" ":" #("<" URI-Reference ">" *( ";" link-param ) )
> link-param = ( ( "rel" "=" relationship ) | ...
> relationship = URI-Reference | ...
> I was under the impression that the founding fathers meant for Link: and 
> <link> to be compatible. We seem to have lost that possibility now, due 
> to lack of coordination between groups working independently on 
> extensions to HTTP and XHTML.

Yes, that's a problem that should be fixed (in rdfa).

BR, Julian

Received on Thursday, 11 September 2008 18:12:51 UTC