@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ <h2>RDF Documents and Syntaxes</h2>
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many different ways to encode the same < a > RDF graph</ a > or
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< a > RDF dataset</ a > , for example through the use of
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< a > namespace prefixes</ a > ,
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- < a > relative IRIs </ a > , < a > blank node identifiers</ a > ,
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+ < a > relative IRI references </ a > , < a > blank node identifiers</ a > ,
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and different ordering of statements. While these aspects can have great
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effect on the convenience of working with the < a > RDF document</ a > ,
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they are not significant for its meaning.</ p >
@@ -599,8 +599,8 @@ <h3>IRIs</h3>
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< p class ="note "> For convenience, a complete [[ABNF]] grammar
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from [[RFC3987]] is provided in < a href ="#iri-abnf " class ="sectionRef "> </ a > .</ p >
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- < p > IRIs in the RDF abstract syntax MUST be absolute, and MAY
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- contain a fragment identifier.</ p >
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+ < p > IRIs in the RDF abstract syntax MUST be absolute,
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+ and MAY contain a fragment identifier.</ p >
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< p > < dfn > IRI equality</ dfn > :
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Two IRIs are equal if and only if they are < a > equivalent</ a >
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of [[!RFC3987]]. Further normalization MUST NOT be performed when
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comparing IRIs for equality.</ p >
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- < p class ="issue " data-number ="15 ">
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- The group is updating IRI terminology to more closer follow the current RFCs.
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- </ p >
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-
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< div class ="note " id ="note-iris ">
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< p > < strong > URIs and IRIs:</ strong >
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IRIs are a generalization of
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< dfn data-lt ="URI " data-lt-noDefault > < abbr title ="Uniform Resource Identifier "> URI</ abbr > s</ dfn >
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[[RFC3986]] that permits a wider range of Unicode characters.
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Every absolute URI and URL is an IRI, but not every IRI is an URI.
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+ In RDF, IRIs are used as < em > IRI references</ em > , as defined in [[RFC3987]].
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When IRIs are used in operations that are only
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defined for URIs, they must first be converted according to
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the mapping defined in
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characters, %-encoding of octets not allowed in URIs, and
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Punycode-encoding of domain names.</ p >
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- < p > < strong > Relative IRIs :</ strong >
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+ < p > < strong > Relative IRI references :</ strong >
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Some < a > concrete RDF syntaxes</ a > permit
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- < span id ="dfn-relative-iris "> <!-- obsolete term--> </ span > < dfn data-lt ="relative iri "> relative IRIs</ dfn > as a convenient shorthand
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+ < span id ="dfn-relative-iris "> <!-- obsolete term--> </ span >
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+ < dfn data-lt ="relative iri reference "> relative IRI references</ dfn > as a convenient shorthand
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that allows authoring of documents independently from their final
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- publishing location. Relative IRIs must be
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- < a data-cite ="rfc3986#section-5.2 "> resolved
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- against</ a > a < dfn class ="export "> base IRI</ dfn > to make them absolute.
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+ publishing location.
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+ Relative IRI references must be
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+ < a data-cite ="rfc3986#section-5.2 "> resolved against</ a > a
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+ < dfn class ="export "> base IRI</ dfn > to make them absolute.
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Therefore, the RDF graph serialized in such syntaxes is well-defined only
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if a < a data-cite ="rfc3986#section-5.1 "> base IRI
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can be established</ a > [[RFC3986]].</ p >
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