Re: A simple question....

This issue appears quite often.  
For example, in the "Simpler Syntax" document that Tim Berners-Lee 
posted ( http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Syntax ) he included a section 
discussing this "Identifiers - what is identified?".  
Is it that, in contrast to C, etc, XML appears to be missing a syntax element 
to indicate to a user agent that the identifier should be dereferenced?   

Stefan Decker wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> a question and maybe an RDF 2.0 requirement ;-)
> 
> Lets say, i have the following HTML-code in my homepage
> (e.g. http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde ;-)
> 
> ...
> <center><A name="myname">Stefan Decker</A></center>
> ...
> 
> In which respect are the following RDF-snippets identical?
> 
> 1)
> 
>    <rdf:Description about="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde">
>        <s:Creator>Stefan Decker</s:Creator>
>      </rdf:Description>
>    </rdf:RDF>
> 
> 2)
>    <rdf:Description about="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde">
>        <s:Creator resource="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde#myname"/>
>      </rdf:Description>
>    </rdf:RDF>
> 
> I know that they will produce different triples, but is there a way
> to guarantee, that an application behaves the same, regardless what it
> will get?
> 
> Background:
> We have created an extended WYSIWYG-HTML-Editor, which allows to semantic
> annotation of text. One simply marks the text and selects the
> class/attribute from an ontology. Semantic Markup is inserted into
> the HTML-text.
> However, the editor now supports the ontobroker-annotation language,
> but i would like to switch this to RDF (we worked on that concept
> before RDF was born...)
> 
> On the other side, i don't want to COPY the marked text from of the HTML-page,
> but would like to POINT to it. Otherwise if the HTML-page changes the
> metadata will be invalidated, and thats something i would like to
> avoid.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         Stefan

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Best			Simon