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-----Original Message-----
From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) [mailto:dbooth@...]
Sent: 06 April 2007 17:12
To: Misha Wolf; Henry S. Thompson; www-tag@...;
newsml-g2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: Towards a TAG consideration of CURIEs

> From: www-tag-request@... [mailto:www-tag-request@...]
> . . .
> Henry pointed out at the Edinburgh AC meeting that if we used simple
> concatenation to give people access to information about terms in
> our taxonomies, we could end up with illegal fragment IDs. So:
>
> If:
> <subject qcode="iptc:123456"/>
> and if:
> iptc -> http://www.iptc.org/NewsCodes#
> and if we used simple concatenation, we'd get:
> iptc -> http://www.iptc.org/NewsCodes#123456
>
> There is, of course, the other option:
> iptc -> http://www.iptc.org/NewsCodes/
> then if we used simple concatenation, we'd get:
> iptc -> http://www.iptc.org/NewsCodes/123456
>
> We've decided to side-step this by specifying that the concatenation
> rules are taxonomy-specific and are up to the provider of each
> taxonomy.

So any URI-based program using multiple taxonomies must have special
concatenation rules built in for *each* taxonomy? That sounds awful.
Was there some reason why the group could at least recommend that the
namespace part end with either "/" or "#" (along with corresponding
constraints on the local part)?

David Booth, Ph.D.
HP Software
+1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@...
http://www.hp.com/go/software


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