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rdf:ID and fragment identifiers
An important difference from previous examples is that, in line 5, the rdf:Description element has an rdf:ID attribute instead of an rdf:about attribute. Using rdf:ID specifies a fragment identifier, given by the value of the rdf:ID attribute (item10245 in this case, which might be the catalog number assigned by example.com), as an abbreviation of the complete URIref of the resource being described. The fragment identifier item10245 will be interpreted relative to a base URI, in this case, the URI of the containing catalog document. The full URIref for the tent is formed by taking the base URI (of the catalog), and appending the character "#" (to indicate that what follows is a fragment identifier) and then item10245 to it, giving the absolute URIref http://www.example.com/2002/04/products#item10245.