Re: [office-metadata] Question about the IRI of a RDF subject from an ODF document

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

On Feb 7, 2007, at 5:55 AM, Michael Brauer wrote:

> Sounds reasonable, so we may need a base URI for meta data.
>
> For RDF/XML (or to be more precise, for RDF/XML streams that are 
> contained in a package), we get the possibility to specify a base URI 
> automatically, since RDF/XML has this feature (that's my understanding 
> from what you said about RDF/XML). So there is nothing we need to in 
> addition to specifying the algorithm for creating absolute URIs.
>
> For RDFa (or the content.xml, to be more precise), the situation is 
> more complex.

But correct me if I'm wrong: using a base URI is at best a convenience 
that only matters if we want to use relative URIs. We don't *need* it?

Bruce