Re: URIs as value

Silvia Pfeiffer さんは書きました:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> wrote:
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>> Silvia Pfeiffer さんは書きました:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> wrote:
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>> Understand, and sorry for the misunderstanding on my side. The tricky part
>> will be the API design, when we have to define return types for e.g.
>> getCreator . Of course we could say "text or URI", but what happens with the
>> URI? Is it resolved? What happens if the resolution does not lead to RDF
>> data but to an image? And so on.
>>     
>
> I see where you're coming from.
>
> The way I looked at it was that a string (or whatever data type we
> define) would be returned that is the data element. For RDF that means
> that the RDF link has to be resolved and the actual data element
> retrieved before it is returned through the API. In that way, the API
> always returns the same. It just means that RDF is a different way of
> specifying the data. A structured way. Think of it as a database
> behind your data elements. And because it is a standard and web-based
> database, we could specify more clearly how that data is to be
> retrieved. But we don't have to - it may well be out of scope.
>   

Thank you for your explanations, Silvia. Let's keep this issue in mind
and come back to it then we discuss the API. For now, I have opened an
issue to keep track of this thread, see

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6219

Felix

> Cheers,
> Silvia.
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