Hi. I may be mistaken, but RDF+XML allows to set relative URIs for rdf:about properties.
For instance the document retrieved from http://example.com/blogs/entries may contain : <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"; xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"; xmlns:oslc_blog="http://open-services.net/ns/bogus/blogs#";> <oslc_blog:Entry rdf:about="#1"> <dcterms:title>I love trash</dcterms:title> SNIP Which would describe an oslc_blog:Entry resource whose URI would be http://example.com/blogs/entries#1 Then, similarly, rdf:about="" would be valid and refer to the document itself (http://example.com/blogs/entries) in such case. Still, the OSLC specs in [0] mention : "# 1.0 Open the XML root element <rdf:RDF> and include all required namespace declarations # 2.0 Open the XML element as a first child of the XML root element using the Resource's Prefixed Name * 2.1 Add to the XML element the rdf:about attribute set to the URI of the resource" So, would rdf:about="" be a valid content for a document produced by an OSLC compliant provider (of course, it'd be better accessed from a "stable" URL) ? Thanks in advance. Best regards, [0] http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OSLCCoreSpecAppendixRepresentations#Steps_to_generate_an_XML_represe -- Olivier BERGER <[email protected]> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)
