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Thomas B. Passin wrote: > > You could get the same effect by embedding into the rdf document one triple > that used the namespace URI as its subject and said what working URL to go > to for the property definitions. Then no one would have to get confused > about whether a property URI represented the concept of the bare URL. > > Just another convention, but one that seems cleaner to me. > For RDF/OWL applications, we can assume that when property URIrefs are dereferenced it will be with Accept: application/rdf+xml In that case, there is no confusion at all. RDF/OWL applications will get back an OWL description of the property. An OWL application understands exactly that the following URIref: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-owl-guide-20030331/wine.owl#TableWine which dereferences to: <owl:Class rdf:ID="TableWine"> <owl:subClassOf> <owl:Class> <owl:intersectionOf rdf:parseType="Collection"> <owl:Class rdf:about="#Wine" /> <owl:Restriction> <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="#hasSugar" /> <owl:hasValue rdf:resource="#Dry" /> </owl:Restriction> </owl:intersectionOf> </owl:Class> </owl:subClassOf> </owl:Class> means the class of TableWine. To the RDF/OWL appliction this DOES NOT mean the XML element owl:Class[@rdf:ID="TableWine"] because the RDF and OWL model theories define this piece of XML to be interpreted as an OWL class. That is to say RDF and OWL have a very definite semantics defining an interpretation of the XML and/or N-Triples syntax on which they might be based. Jonathan
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