RE: Please drop my action to respond to issue-dbooth9a

> From: Dan Connolly [mailto:connolly@w3.org] 
> 
> Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote:
> >> From: Chimezie Ogbuji [mailto:ogbujic@ccf.org] 
> >> . . .
> >> I noticed there is a simultaneous TAG thread [1] on this 
> very topic.
> >>
> >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007May/0063.html
> > 
> > Yes, that message from John Cowen is an excellent 
> > illustration of the
> > fact that it only reliably makes sense to talk about the semantics
> > (read: "GRDDL results") of a *representation* -- not an information
> > resource.
> 
> 
> I made a relevant change the GRDDL spec some months ago...
> 
> ---
> revision 1.188
> date: 2007/01/24 15:25:46;  author: connolly;  state: Exp;  
> lines: +115 -81
> * domain of grddl:transformation is now an XPath root node, rather
>    than an information resource, to fix the bug with multiple
>    representations that BrianM reported 2006-11-15.  grddl:txlink goes
>    away as a result.
> ---
> 
> But for grdd:result itself, the rule concludes things about
> the resource based on its representation...
> 
> [[
> If an information resource([WEBARCH], section 2.2) IR is 
> represented by 
> an XML document with an XPath root node R, and R has a GRDDL 
> transformation with a transformation property TP, and TP applied to R 
> gives an RDF Graph[RDFC04] G, then G is a GRDDL result of IR.
> ]]
>   -- http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec#rule_result

Right.  That is exactly the problem.

David Booth, Ph.D.
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