  Use cases for relative URIs as namespace names  Date: Sat, 31
Jan 2004 12:06:10 -0500 Message-Id:
<C4891D4E-540F-11D8-8473-000A9580D8C0@w3.org> Cc: www-rdf-
comments@w3.org, 'www-tag@w3.org' <www-tag@w3.org> To: Philippe
Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>  For the record.  I can't remember what
prompted me to write up these sue cases for  but no one else
seems to just now.  Tim BL  1. An SQL database supports a query
by an RDF query protocol.  This  protocol involves encoding the
query in XML.  All the columns in the  database have URIs which
are  The database table is   and two of its columns are
properties     The client sends and XML message to the server by
doing a GET on a URI which starts     followed by a URI-encoding
of the XML for  "What is cost of part  number 4?"   In this
application, every database has a new namespace for its terms.
It makes the query a lot shorter. It also means that some query
code can be written without knowing the  hostname of the query,
and proxying is easier, etc.  2.  In in RDF, l