Re: A simpler way of thinking about containment and membership?

On 2/20/14 11:48 AM, Arnaud Le Hors wrote:
> > [2] I think it's overly constraining to say that if you want to do
> > the primary-subject thing, you have to have the same primary-subject
> > predicate for every resource in the membership, and that you have to
> > have such a triple in the data at all.   That basically forces
> > memberships to be homogeneous and overly explicit about their
> > document structuring.   I suggest instead that during PUT or POST,
> > the client include a header like:  Link <#me> rel="http://
> > www.w3.org/ns/ldp/PrimarySubject".    This tells the server to use
> > this alternate URL in the membership triples it's maintaining, if
> > any.   Maybe on GET, the server should be handing back that header,
> > too.   (It needs to remember it for later use in DELETE.)
>
> This would be more powerful indeed but we are way past the design 
> period and it's too late to think of better/more powerful ways of 
> doing things.

I assume you mean: this is an item for a future release, due to current 
time constraints?

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