well, this is tricky. technically, it's not strictly required, but it's a lossy transform (lossy in both ways, in fact). One of the attractions of fhir;reference for me is that you can have an absolute reference for RDF and preserve the original fhir url
Grahame On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:01 AM, David Booth <da...@dbooth.org> wrote: > Grahame and/or Lloyd, > > In today's FHIR RDF teleconference, a question came up about relative and > absolute URIs in FHIR references. > > Must absolute and relative references be round tripped as is? I.e., do we > need to maintain the distinction between relative and absolute references > when round tripping, or can relative URIs be turned into absolute URIs and > vice versa? > > I did not see any mention of normalizing references in the discussion of > Canonical JSON: > https://hl7-fhir.github.io/json.html > > Thanks, > David Booth > > -- ----- http://www.healthintersections.com.au / grah...@healthintersections.com.au / +61 411 867 065