[redland-dev] Serializer namespace issues

[Dave Beckett]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:05 +0100, Kieron Taylor wrote:
> I am finding that the RDF I parse is being mangled somewhat when I 
> change and serialize it again.
> 
> Firstly, I am having some namespaces in my URIs overwritten. I suspect 
> this is because of the baseuri setting given when we create the 
> parser/serializer objects. I am not clear on the purpose of the baseuri 
> variable, could someone explain it for me?
> 
> Secondly, when I have a triple that points to a resource, Redland seems 
> to be stripping off the namespace part and leaving only the schema I was 
> referring to. This is particularly bad because RDF parsers/renderers 
> such as IsaViz assign another namespace to them instead, which is 
> invariably wrong. Why is this happening?
> 
> To illustrate, the resource I create is something like:
> http://myurl.com/schema.rdfs#Class
> 
> but when serialized it appears in the file as:
> schema.rdfs#Class

Is this with the 'rdfxml' serializer or the 'rdfxml-abbrev'.  If the
latter, I wouldn't be surprised as I found it has some problems in the
transformations it makes to try to make a pretty result.  The former
should be correct although uglier/larger.

Dave