No, URIs are absolute in RDF model, even though they can be relative
in serializations.
Why don't you use base URI (@base in Turtle) and/or prefixes so that
URIs stay stable no matter where you load the file from?

Martynas

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Norman Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> If I load this .ttl file with Jena:
>
>   <http://example.org/ml/people/John_Smith> <livesIn> "London" .
>
> Jena helpfully makes the livesIn URI absolute using the file I loaded
> or, if I specify a baseURI, absolute with respect to that base URI.
>
> Is there any way to leave it relative? It happens that I'm moving the
> data from one place to another and I'd just as soon not bake the
> absolute URI of the source document into the model.
>
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>
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