I don't hate this. However, I am copying the XHTML 2 Working Group
because they are the keepers of the CURIE spec. It would eliminate the
"SafeCURIE" production altogether, and instead change the URIorCURIE
production to be one where URIs are delimited.
Mark?
Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
This is a comment I made earlier in a TAG context but thought I would
repeat here.
It seems silly to distinguish curies from URIs in a way which makes
the short form longer.
Why not make the short curie the default, and allow a longer syntax
for the case in which someone wants to put a full URI?
Thus not
<a zref="[book:ch1]">
<a zref="http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1";>
but
<a zref="book:ch1">
<a zref="<http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1>">
or
<a zref="[http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1]";>
This not only minimizes the number of characters in abbreviated case
rather than the longhand case, it also uses a convention common
elsewhere in N3 and SPARQL. Clearly a superior solution, better for
the documents and better for learning.
Tim
--
Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120
Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180
ApTest Minnesota Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
