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Re: Same namespace for XSD and RDF

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:04:23 +0100

On 26/07/2012 12:55, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
> <ns:element xmlns:ns="http://example.net/myschema/"  />
>
>
> <ns:ent xmlns:ns="http://example.net/myschema/elem"  />
>
> In XML these two are clearly distinct elements, while in RDF they
> both map to the same URI"http://example.net/myschema/element"


yes the fact that RDF simply concatenates the URI and local name is so
clearly a bug that it's shocking really it was never fixed. The argument
against fixing it is usually "too much existing code", but the future is
a lot longer than the past and it seems we'll be stuck with that forever.

Of course this leads to weird recommendations relating to making sure
your namespace URI ends with / or # so that it works in RDF whereas just
fixing RDF rather than asking everyone to work around its bugs would
have been my choice.

David


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• References:
  • Same namespace for XSD and RDF
    • From: Freek Dijkstra <Freek.Dijkstra@sara.nl>
  • Re: Same namespace for XSD and RDF
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
  • Re: Same namespace for XSD and RDF
    • From: Freek Dijkstra <Freek.Dijkstra@sara.nl>