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Hello everyone! I'm wondering if it is possible to use QNames in the form of 'prefix:' (without a local name, e.g. the part after the colon). Say a prefix foo is assigned to the full URI of some property. This way publishers could use custom names, which could be handy for various reasons (shortening, translating etc.). I just realized this is not possible in RDF/XML serialization, because the tag name cannot be empty, according to the spec. [1] Anyways, what do you think about this idea? Is there any solution/hack for the implementation in RDF/XML? Is there any other way to do this? |
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This is why I like standards specifications--because they let you look up definitive answers to questions like this. Production 27 at http://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/turtle/#sec-grammar-grammar shows that the local name is optional in Turtle. Interestingly, the SPARQL spec doesn't mention qnames. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-qualnames makes it official that local names are required in XML. |
