[oslc-core] Relative URIs in rdf:about of OSCL resources

[Olivier Berger]

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
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Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu>
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Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
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