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

"Don't cross the streams... It would be bad."

i.e. are you mixing in an unrelated issue?

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 19:07 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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> Dan Connolly writes:
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> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:33 -0400, Jonathan Rees wrote:
> >> 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.
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> > They're still compatible if you consider both CURIEs and
> > URI references as syntactic sugar for URIs.
> 
> But URI refs and CURIEs overlap lexically -- how are you supposed to
> tell whether mailto:robin is a URI reference or a CURIE?

HTTP Link: it's a URI reference, and in RDFa, (I assume, I haven't
looked closely) it's a CURIE.


>   The TAG is
> on record [1] as saying CURIEs should not be deployed in existing
> contexts where URIs are currently specified.
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> ht
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> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2008JanMar/0014.html

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