Re: [office-metadata] "Logical/abstract" vs. "physical" representation

[Elias Torres <eliast@us.ibm.com>]

I also would like to remind you that in RDF we use an absolute URI not a
relative one. Base URI doesn't fully resolve the issue because when a model
is in memory people operate against the model having no knowledge of the
base URI. They simply add and remove triples with absolute subjects and
predicates. Therefore, if we change the base URI you can be making changes
that affect other statements not written by you.

-Elias

"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com> wrote on 03/05/2007 08:45:28 AM:

>
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 -
> Hamburg wrote:
>
> > Doesn't HTML have the same issues, and is RDFa specifying which
> > base IRI have to be used?
>
> But in HTML, things are a little easier because we presume the
> document is located at an HTTP address, which is the base URI.
>
> We have no such comfort with ODF (or other traditionally desktop)
> documents.
>
> Bruce
>