RE: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type)

Again: Why do we refuse naming it 'type'?

Because it is to RDFish? (BTW, we're doing *R*D*F*a)
Or are there any (X)HTML (2) issues, I might have missed?

Cheers,
	Michael

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 Michael Hausenblas, MSc.
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 JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
  
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: public-swd-wg-request@w3.org 
>[mailto:public-swd-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Herman
>Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 10:57 AM
>To: Steven Pemberton
>Cc: Ben Adida; RDFa; SWD WG
>Subject: Re: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] 
>ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type)
>
>If so... 'category' maybe the closest to what we mean...
>
>Ivan
>
>Steven Pemberton wrote:
>> 
>> I think there are only 3 reasons why I think 'instanceof' is 
>a bad choice:
>> 
>> 1. Multiword, which I already spoke of.
>> 2. instance has another meaning in some existing and future XHTML
>> documents.
>> 3. It comes over as rdf-speak. Up to now we have done our 
>best to avoid
>> exposing RDF terminology to the XHTML author; no subject, predicate,
>> object and so on, just existing HTML concepts where possible.
>> Unfortuantely, most of the synonyms have already been taken (class,
>> type, role), but I still think we should try and find something that
>> reads better than 'instanceof' or 'isa'.
>> 
>> /me runs a thesaurus
>> 
>> sort
>> kind
>> category
>> realm
>> 
>> depict
>> portray
>> represent
>> embody
>> 
>> like
>> 
>> Steven
>> 
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:25:48 +0200, Ben Adida <ben@adida.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> In today's telecon, we proposed and resolved to use a *new* 
>attribute,
>>> rather than @class or @role, for the rdf:type syntactic sugar. Thus,
>>> @class and @role do not currently result in any triples 
>being generated,
>>> although one may consider that they will in a future version.
>>>
>>> The question, then, is which attribute to use. Steven expressed
>>> reservations about two-word attributes like "isa" or 
>"instanceof", and
>>> instead proposed: denotes, depicts, represents, category, ilk, kind.
>>>
>>> Other thoughts?
>>>
>>> I'm partial to "instanceof" and "kind", and I have no additional
>>> suggestions.
>>>
>>> -Ben
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
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