Wording tweaks in Fragment Identifier section

Hi Yves, hi Gavin,

You mentioned in the call that you didn't like this sentence from the RDF Concepts 1.1 ED:

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Since IRIs in RDF graphs can denote anything, this can be something external to the representation, or even external to the “shared information space” known as the Web.
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In my defense, it's pretty much lifted straight from RDF Concepts 2004:

[[
the RDF treatment of a fragment identifier allows it to indicate a thing that is entirely external to the document, or even to the "shared information space" known as the Web. That is, it can be a more general idea, like some particular car or a mythical Unicorn.
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I'm inclined to leave the sentence as is. Because … uhm … by getting rid of the Unicorn, the new version is already so vastly improved over the 2004 version that any further changes would just be petty nitpicking ;-)

Explicitly calling out that fragIDs can identify other things than just document parts is sensible here IMO.


Gavin, you mentioned you had problems making sense of the last sentence. I changed it to:

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Likewise, RDF graphs embedded in non-RDF representations with mechanism such as RDFa [RDFA-PRIMER] should use fragment identifiers consistently with the semantics imposed by the host language.
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Best,
Richard

Received on Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:48:22 UTC