On Saturday 24 January 2009 23:52:00 Shane McCarron wrote: > Because the are *namespace* URIs, not *vocabulary* URIs. They were > never intended to be expanded by concatenating the expanded prefix with > the value after the colon.
Hmm, I hope it's not getting to philosophical now ;-) I'm sure it's no longer related to Stéphane's original question, but nevertheless let me ask: Wouldn't it, in some cases, be reasonable to make XML namespace URIs usable as vocabulary URIs? What URI would, e.g., the xhtml:h1 element have if you wanted to talk about it in RDF like … xhtml:h1 a :XHTMLElement ; :content :text ; ... . OK, so far, this is just a reinvention of any XML schema language in RDF, but I could well imagine that there are reasonable use cases for attaching _additional_ information to an XML schema using RDF. But as XML namespace URIs don't end in / nor #, this would be impossible, or, at least, not nice. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, Jacobs Univ. Bremen, http://kwarc.info/clange, Skype duke4701
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