xml-dev - Re: RDF Sample, ICAO Airport Codes

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

James Tauber writes:

 > > In your example you used URLs and more particularly http based URLs, I am
 > > not so sure it is the right kind of URI to uniquely identify a record or
 > > more particularly to uniquely identify a record in an exchange format
 > > between databases. It would be better to employ a location independent or
 > > more simply a protocol agnostic URI for the element's identification.
 > 
 > Or use an "hname"-style protocol as proposed independently by Paul Prescod,
 > myself and others.

It's not guaranteed unique until the scheme is approved.

I remember that Paul was working on getting a URN scheme through -- is
it in a state that I could use it for constructing the identifiers
now?


Thanks, and all the best,


David

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