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does the XML "namespace" field allow URI fragments? #3263
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Why would you use an (xpath?) fragment id to identify a portion of an XML resource as a namespace? |
@MikeRalphson I haven't used XML for anything in decades :-) However, RDF namespaces are related to XML namespaces and typically include an empty fragment (because namespace URIs are prefixes, not base URIs, and RDF vocabulary terms are defined as plain name fragments within the resource). The RDF/XML specification shows that Here's an example from the spec: <?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:ex="http://example.org/stuff/1.0/">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar"
dc:title="RDF1.1 XML Syntax">
<ex:editor>
<rdf:Description ex:fullName="Dave Beckett">
<ex:homePage rdf:resource="http://purl.org/net/dajobe/" />
</rdf:Description>
</ex:editor>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF> |
An optional empty fragment id I can get behind. |
@MikeRalphson as a use case for a non-empty fragment, consider the compliance project. I'll be defining an ontology for OAS 3.0 and 3.1 concepts. I could, of course, put these in separate documents and use an empty-fragment namespace for each. However, I want to ensure that certain concepts are defined as identical in 3.0 and 3.1 while still giving them separate URIs to avoid asking users to use a mix of 3.0 and 3.1 terms when working with 3.1. I will also want to define that some concepts, while not identical, are analogous. This should be easier to do if both ontologies are defined in the same resource. If one is using both ontologies at once (because you are describing multiple APIs, some using 3.0 and 3.1) then declaring a namespace of |
But the It isn't clear to me that the compliance parser operates within, or on, this context. |
@MikeRalphson the question is whether the If |
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@handrews then in that case a PR would be great if you have time! |
OAS states that the
namespace
field of the XML Object "MUST be in the form of an absolute URI." (3.0; 3.1).Technically, an absolute URI cannot have a fragment. However, XML Namespaces are defined as URI-references, although relative references are deprecated. The intention of URI-references-but-not-relative-URI-references is to allow fragments in namespace URIs.
If OAS intended to be aligned with this usage (no relative references, but yes fragments), then the wording needs to be changed.
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