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Re: RDDL natures: for the record

From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:36:25 -0500
To: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Message-ID: <OFE1E04215.F2C082FE-ON8525724A.005558D1-8525724A.0055A62C@lotus.com>

Jonathan Borden asks:

> I've been reading through http://www.w3.
> org/2001/tag/2006/12/13-morning-minutes#item02 

> Whats is "drens"? I can't decipher the record.

>From those same minutes:

> Lunch revealed an consensus among danc noah and timbl that hte 
> current rddl usage of sometimes a DRENS (doc root elemnt 
> namespace ) as a rddl:nature and sometimes somthing quite other
> as a category error which seiously limit sthe use of the metsdata. 

So, it appears to be a shorthand for Document Root Element Namespace.  I 
doubt the TAG is promoting this term for widespread usage; most likely it 
crept in as a shorthand in the minutes (or maybe it is widely used and I'm 
not aware?)

Noah

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