From: Dan Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Date: 10/04/01
Jeff Heflin wrote: > Dan Connolly wrote: > >>"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote: >>[...] >> >>><rdf:Property rdf:ID="streetAddress"> >>> <rdfs:range rdf:resource="xsd:string" /> >>> >>don't forget that rdf:resource takes a full URI, >>not a qname. >> >> > > Dan (and anyone else on the RDF Core WG), > > Is there any consideration of adding the ability to use qnames as > resources in RDF? Yes... http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-qnames-as-attrib-values the sort of suggestion you make below has been kicked around; you're welcome to send your specific suggestion to www-rdf-comments and request to be notified if/when there's movement on this issue. But there's almost no way to read it as a clarification of the RDF 1.0 spec, so the WG would have to be rechartered before it happens. > Maybe you could have a qresource attribute, thus > rewriting Peter's example as: > > <rdf:Property rdf:ID="streetAddress"> > <rdfs:range rdf:qresource="xsd:string" /> > </rdf:Property> > > I think such an attribute would have value beyond referring to XML > Datatypes. For example, one of the ugly things about RDF is that when > you reference classes or properties defined in other schemas, you have > to concatenate the full namespace name with the ID. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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