Re: Wording tweaks in Fragment Identifier section

Hello!

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> 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:
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> 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 ;-)
> 

Heh :-) I agree getting rid of the Unicorn was a very good thing! The only reason I don't like the sentence is that "shared information space", in quotes, which doesn't read very spec-y (and might be confusing for new readers). Would something like the following work?

"or event to the 'shared information space' known as the Web" => "or even to the Web"?

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

Oh yes, I definitely agree on that.

Best,
y

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> 
> 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.
> ]]
> 
> Best,
> Richard
> 

Received on Thursday, 17 November 2011 10:11:05 UTC