VIVO-1519: Prefixes for Java should be simple substititions

[chenejac]

Mike Conlon (Migrated from VIVO-1519) said:

@grahamtriggs points out that prefixes for Java are now "handled" as a result of VIVO-1408 and then a workaround was provided for jenatools in the form of VIVO-1408

This issue would implement prefixes as transparent simple text substitutions.  No '#' in a java class path interpreted by software in some special way.  Prefixes for java class paths should end in '.'  so that one can write prefix:path.path and the substitution occurs in a transparent way, leading to syntactically correct path.

Requires discussion.

[chenejac]

Andrew Woods said:

Based on Jim Blake's comment in VIVO-1408, it appears that a namespace can not be terminated with a ".":

 It would be much easier to read these strings if we could use RDF namespaces with corresponding prefixes. However, the period is not a valid delimiter for a namespace.

[chenejac]

Mike Conlon said:

I guess as see the prefixes as a shortcut and the string following the prefix as the text to substituted for the prefix.  The notion that the user's content must be manipulated is a concern.