On 10 Nov 2011, at 00:48, Kevin Corcoran wrote: > > To give a very brief description of my situation: > * I've got a namespace with a prefix defined in the opening <rdf:RDF> tag. > ( xmlns:wn="http://www.ontologyportal.org/WordNet.owl#"; ) > * An element in the namespace is referenced using the prefix (
> <subsumingRelation rdf:resource="*wn#WN30-201691057*"/> Aha! That does not mean what you think it means. 1) wn#WN... is not how you use prefixes in any RDF syntax. However... 2) You can't use prefixes in rdf:resource anyway. In rdf/xml you only use namespaces in elements, e.g. <ex:MyClass ...> <ex:myProp ...> rdf:resource and rdf:about take URIs, in much the same way as href in html. So you should write: <subsumingRelation rdf:resource="http://www.ontologyportal.org/WordNet.owl#WN30-201691057*"/> > * When getNameSpace() is called on the Resource which represents the object > of that triple, it returns http://www.ontologyportal.org/wn# - which seems > to be a weird mash-up of the actual namespace and it's prefix. What's happening is: 1) The resource is given as "wn#WN30-201691057*" 2) That's not an absolute URI, so (like href) we resolve it relative the document base. 3) I assume the document base is something like http://www.ontologyportal.org/...something..., and I would guess http://www.ontologyportal.org/WordNet.owl ? Resolving results in http://www.ontologyportal.org/wn#WN30-201691057* If I'm right about the base, try rdf:resource="#WN30-201691057*". Damian
