- From: Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 02:22:42 -0700
- To: Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>
- CC: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>, "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>, RDF Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Danny Ayers wrote:
>
> Just a thought - what we are more or less saying by embedding RDF in a doc
> is that 'here is some metadata, process it if you can', so might not a PI
> play a role here? (presumably in combination with NOTATIONs)
Well, I've no heard this directly from him, but my understanding is that
Tim BL really hates PIs. I'm pretty sure Dan does. Besides, I'm not sure
that PIs are really appropriate here since their role isn't typically to
play such an essential part in a document. They're really there only to
add literally "processing instructions" to a document. But I do agree
it's possible that we could use a formalized PI to declare the location
of a notation processor, which is something I've done before under different
circumstances, and might be appropriate here. Your suggestion in this
sense is a good one.
But politically at the W3C? I dunno. I'm little interested in political
battles at this point in my life -- been there, too much blood.
Murray
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