Re: Namespace & Profile Document Health Warnings

Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) wrote:
> Since we are not pursuing the notion of "complete GRDDL results", here
> is a health warning that I think would be good to include in the primer
> regarding namespace and profile representations. 
>   
I think this is a relatively sensible health warning, and would rather
add this in with links to the spec for namespace documents instead of
linking to spec namespace documents. I think adding it near the end of
the end of the spreadsheet example makes sense, in a <blockquote>, and
putting the microformat advice in <blockquotes> as well. Also, to refer
to danja's points about the Primer not being that useful as a
"cheatsheet", perhaps using a "red" font to underline relevant parts of
the examples would help.

I'd like to hit the "ship" button on the primer later today though, so
if there's any more last minute corrections or edits (please keep
editorial), e-mail them now to the list-serv.

> [[
> Given an XML document representation, a GRDDL-aware agent that wishes to
> determine namespace or profile transformations may resolve the
> namespace or profile IRI to obtain a representation.  Because of content
> negotiation and other factors, different GRDDL-aware agents resolving
> the same namespace or profile IRI could receive different
> representations, which could in turn specify different namespace or
> profile transformations, which could in turn produce different GRDDL
> results.  In particular, a GRDDL-aware agent that receives a namespace
> or profile representation that specifies GRDDL transformations may not
> even be aware that some other representation, specifying more or
> different transformations, is available.  This may pose problems to
> users that intend to retrieve all of the available GRDDL results
> associated with the original XML document representation.
>
> To help prevent this problem, namespace and profile document authors
> that choose to serve representations that indicate namespace or profile
> transformations are advised to ensure that all such representations
> specify the <i>same</i> namespace or profile transformations.
> ]]
>
>
> David Booth, Ph.D.
> HP Software
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>
> Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not represent
> the official views of HP unless explicitly stated otherwise.
>
>
>   


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		-harry

Harry Halpin,  University of Edinburgh 
http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426

Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2007 20:44:37 UTC