- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:31:39 -0400
- To: W3C RDFa task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
This is a comment I made earlier in a TAG context but thought I would repeat here. It seems silly to distinguish curies from URIs in a way which makes the short form longer. Why not make the short curie the default, and allow a longer syntax for the case in which someone wants to put a full URI? Thus not <a zref="[book:ch1]"> <a zref="http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1"> but <a zref="book:ch1"> <a zref="<http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1>"> or <a zref="[http://books.example.com/20078-3-789/book#ch1]"> This not only minimizes the number of characters in abbreviated case rather than the longhand case, it also uses a convention common elsewhere in N3 and SPARQL. Clearly a superior solution, better for the documents and better for learning. Tim
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