ISSUE-44: Revisit "The RDF XML syntax cannot represent all possible Property URI's"

rdfms-qnames-can't-represent-all-uris

Revisit "The RDF XML syntax cannot represent all possible Property URI's"

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Cleanup tasks

Raised by:

David Wood

Opened on:

2011-05-03

Description:

See http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-qnames-cant-represent-all-uris
rdfms-qnames-can't represent-all-uris: The RDF XML syntax cannot
represent all possible Property URI's.

CONTINUE: Noted, RDF/XML does not allow all possible property URIs to
be represented. This issue remains open, while the WG explores the
impact of IRIs on RDF; however
RDF/XML is unlikely to change beyond the basic minimum needed. Other
formats (Turtle, n-triples) are available as alternatives to RDF/XML
where difficult property
names are unavoidable. Vocabulary authors have an incentive to choose
RDF property URIs that will work with all syntaxes, including classic
RDF/XML."

Richard proposes to CLOSE instead:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2011Apr/0345.html
"This is a long-known problem in RDF/XML, users have learned to live with it, there is no easy fix, and updating from URIrefs to IRIs is unlikely to change anything here."

Several people supported closing this issue.

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1. Re: ISSUE-59 - RDF/XML completeness (from antoine.zimmermann@insa-lyon.fr on 2011-06-08)
2. RDF-ISSUE-44 (rdfms-qnames-can't-represent-all-uris): Revisit 'The RDF XML syntax cannot represent all possible Property URI's' [Cleanup tasks] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-05-03)

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