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

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

May I kindly ask again if some have any insights on this (thy shall not
post on days before Christmas ? ;) ?

Le jeudi 23 décembre 2010 à 16:14 +0100, Olivier Berger a écrit :
> 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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