  Comments on RDFa Core 1.1 (CURIE only)  From: Gavin Carothers
<gavin@carothers.name> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:50:35 -0800
Message-ID: <CAPqY83yQmxZOW8AozCLHhLzFN5S+C2jLVeOLP+V1XJPWxFQ5Hg
@mail.gmail.com> I'm not sure if this should go to the RDFa WG
as a personal comment, or as part of the RDF WG's feed back.
Alignment with SPARQL and Turtle  Both Turtle and SPARQL provide
a mechanism for writing shortened IRIs. The stated design goals
of CURIEs are:      CURIEs are designed from the ground up to be
used in attribute values. QNames are designed for unambiguously
naming elements and     CURIEs expand to IRIs, and any IRI can
be represented by such an expansion. QNames are treated as value
pairs, but even if those pairs are combined into a string, only
a subset of IRIs can be represented.     CURIEs can be used in
non-XML grammars, and can even be used in XML languages that do
not support XML Namespaces. QNames are limited to XML Namespace-
aware XML Applications.  These exact same goals are met in
Turtle and